Interesting profile on the former A.G. “The commonest error made by almost all critics of Mr Amos Wako is to underrate him. Yet Mr Amos Shitswila Wako is one of the most intelligent people and a very smart lawyer indeed. And because people judge him by his deceptively baby-faced smile and affected moronic demeanour, he outwits them all the time. It comes as a shock to many when they read his curriculum vitae. I doubt any lawyer in Kenya has a better resume. A student of Alliance Boys High School, Mr Wako, 64, holds three degrees — two in law, a Bachelor and a Masters degree, and one in economics. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has been a member of the most distinguished local, regional, continental and international law organisations and has been elected as chairman of most. He has served three different secretaries general of the United Nations as a special rapporteur on human rights.” When he left university, he joined the law firm of Kaplan & Stratton where he became a partner. At that time, Kaplan & Stratton was possibly the oldest law firm in Kenya and predominantly European in its ownership. “At other times, Njonjo would summon all the partners of the white law firm of Kaplan & Stratton, where Mr Wako had been granted a partnership. He would challenge Wako in front of them, threatening to detain him and advising the partners to vote him out of the firm. The pressure was too much for Wako and he begun to temper his statements and to co-operate with Njonjo.” https://beta.groups.yahoo/neo/groups/africa-oped/conversations/messages/39901
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