Ekuru Aukot: A man from a place Kenya forgot
He may have been catapulted to fame through his work at the Committee of Experts on Constitution Review but EKURU AUKOT’S main passion is advocating for the rights of minority groups. He spoke to PETER MUIRURI
"As a pastoralist from Turkana, who am I and where are my nationality and citizenship? I am primarily known as a Kenyan because I hold a Kenyan passport. Yet I am a member of a group that is spread across at least four countries. So where is my real nationality, my citizenship, my state?"
This is the passion with which Dr Ekuru Aukot describes the harsh reality that confronts nomadic communities that have to crisscross man-made regional borders almost every day, risking life and limb, in search of water and pasture for their livestock.
Life in the vast, arid Turkana County is not for the fainthearted. Ekuru is a living example of how tribal conflicts over scanty resources can transform an individual.
EKURU AUKOT [Photo: Standard] |
"My father, Mzee Aukot Tarkus, was polygamous and had 27 children. Imagine a young Ekuru growing up in such a family — and in an area where it is a daily struggle for a single ch
Ekuru Aukot: ‘Daktari wa Katiba’ anayetaka kuwa rais Kenya
Baadhi humfahamu kama Daktari wa Katiba kutokana na mchango wake katika kupatikana kwa Katiba Mpya nchini Kenya ambayo ilianza kutekelezwa mwaka
Dkt Ekuru Aukot, ambaye ni mtaalamu wa masuala ya katiba, alikuwa mkurugenzi na afisa mkuu mtendaji wa wa Kamati ya Wataalamu iliyohusika katika kuandika rasimu ya katiba hiyo.
Sasa, anataka kuwa rais wa taifa la Kenya kutokana na kile anachosema ni kutoheshimiwa na kuhujumiwa kwa Katiba aliyosaidia kuwepo kwake.
Dkt Aukot alizaliwa miaka 45 iliyopita katika eneo la Kapedo, katika kaunti ya Turkana kaskazini magharibi mwa Kenya.
Babake, Mzee Aukot Tarkus, alikuwa na wake wanne na watoto
Kutokana na migogoro iliyokumba eneo hilo, Aukot anasema alisomea elimu ya msingi katika shule sita tofauti.
Alisomea shahada ya uanasheria Chuo Kikuu cha Nairobi na kufuzu na mwaka akahitimu kama mwanasheria katika Chuo cha Wanasheria Kenya.
Baadaye alijiunga na Chuo Kikuu cha Warwick nchini Uingereza na kufuzu na shahada ya uzamili (Sheria na Maendeleo) na uzamifu (Sheria ya Kimataifa kuhusu Wakimbizi) katika uanasheria.
Alifundisha masuala ya Sheria ya Kati
Aukot, the man who caught Kenya&#;s parties napping with Punguza Mizigo bill
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Dr Ekuru Aukot, 47, has been a household name for many years. He was thrust into the limelight when he served as a director in the defunct Committee of Experts that drafted the Constitution.
The Thirdway Alliance Kenya party leader holds a doctorate degree from the University of Warwick UK and is a sought after expert on law and governance matters in Africa.
Dr Aukot, who contested and lost in the presidential elections, recently caught Kenya&#;s main political parties unawares after collecting enough signatures to trigger debate on his Punguza Mizigo referendum push.
He has been fighting for better governance from the periphery but has gained following for fighting for marginalised communities and the &#;little people.&#;
Drafting Constitution
The / post-election violence that rocked Kenya, leaving over 1, dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, was a turning point for the country.
The truce that followed formation of the grand coalition government was anchored several conditions, chief among them promulgation of a new Constitution.
Dr Aukot&#;s knowledge and
Dr Ekuru Aukot
He oversaw the writing of Kenya’s Constitution by the Committee of Experts. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and the Founder of Ekuru Aukot Law Consulting firm. He once taught Constitutional & Administrative Law at University of Warwick, UK and at the Kenya School of Law. He has been a Visiting Law Lecturer on the Law of Refugees & IDPs at School & Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi and at the East African School of Refugees & Humanitarian Affairs, and at Refugee Law Project, Makerere University, Uganda.
He has edited the renowned African Section of the Refugee Law Reader. He has expertise in constitutional law, policy, human rights, governance and forced migration. He studied for PhD and LLM in International Refugee Law, & Law in Development at University of Warwick, UK; holds Bachelor of Law from the University of Nairobi and Diploma in Legal Practice from the Kenya School of Law.
He is the Founder & President of Ekuru Aukot Foundation a lobby group that supports education of nomadic and pastoralists boys and girls. He picked Emmanuel Nzai as his running mate for the first time to make a stub on the presidency throug
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