Photo/FILE Attorney General Amos Wako.
By DAVE OPIYO, dopiyo@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Sunday, June 19 2011 at 22:00
Posted Sunday, June 19 2011 at 22:00
The search for Kenya’s next Attorney General is expected to gather steam as Amos Wako’s tenure draws to an end.
Mr Wako is expected to leave office in August.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga are expected to meet soon and brainstorm on his possible successors.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga are expected to meet soon and brainstorm on his possible successors.
Sources familiar with the two principals’ diaries said yesterday though not scheduled, such a meeting could be held at short notice.
The Constitution stipulates that Mr Wako should have quit one year after its promulgation. This was on August 27, last year.
The Constitution stipulates that Mr Wako should have quit one year after its promulgation. This was on August 27, last year.
Earlier this year, President Kibaki unilaterally nominated lawyer Prof Githu Muigai for the post, a decision that did not go down well with various leaders who accused him of not consulting Mr Odinga in line with the Constitution and National Accord.
The President also nominated Mr Justice Alnashir Visram as Chief Justice, lawyer Kioko Kilukumi as Director of Public Prosecutions and William Kirwa as Controller of Budget.
He withdrew the nominations after the protests.
Mr Wako is the most senior public official from former President Daniel arap Moi’s administration, which he served for 11 years before it was swept away by the Narc juggernaut in the 2002 General Election.
At a news conference in January this year, Mr Wako hinted that even though he would continue his calling as an international commercial arbitrator, he was also “listening to the people”.
“I want to spend the next 20 years doing something else,” he said recently.
Mr Wako has been accused of running down the Judiciary, leading to a huge backlog of cases.
In 2009 he was slapped with a travel ban to the US for “deliberately blocking political reforms” following post-poll violence of 2008.
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