By Dorcas Karuana,
The just concluded LSK election have built and broken the careers of some ambitious Kenyan lawyers who vied for the various elective posts.
Former LSK Chair, Mr. Eric Mutua’s landslide win with 60%of the casted votes, was described by his opponent, Mr Charles Kanjama as “a vote of confidence in his abilities.”
The tenure of the outgoing LSK representative at the JSC, Ahmednasir Abdullahi, was marked by controversy and it is no doubt that all eyes were on race for the lawyers’ representative to the Judicial Service Commission.
This position was clinched by former Law Society of Kenya (LSK) chairman Tom Ojienda having garnered 1,689 votes against Ahmednasir Abdullahi’s 1,445 votes.
Talk of ambition, good timing or call it opportunism; Ojienda will now serve as the LSK representative to the JSC for the next two years.
In his acceptance speech, “Ojienda promised to continue with the fight for transparency within the JSC,” reports Daily Nation.
The ambitious, straight talking and abrasive Lawyer Ahmednasir, now has a broken career which hangs in the balance as there is already a court case challenging his acquisition of pupilage certificate.
Who exactly is Lawyer Tom Ojienda?
- He is a PhD holder in Law from the University of South Africa and a former student at the Kings College-London where he graduated in 1995 with Masters in Laws after his Bachelors at the University of Nairobi.
- He is currently serving as the Vice-President, Pan African Lawyers Union and is the Past President, East Africa Law Society and past Chair of the Law Society of Kenya.
- He is also the chairman, and council member at the International Bar Association and an Associate Professor of Human Rights, Land Law and Gender at Moi University.
- The former Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) commissioner, now chairs the Land Acquisition Compensation Tribunal.
- He has written two books on land law, one on the Law of the Sea and another on corruption and has also edited two books on democracy and constitutional change.
- He has consulted for the World Bank, USAID, ACCORD and EAC and continues to consult in the area of land reform.
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