Ekuru aukot biography

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? 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.

Imagine a young Ekuru growing up in such a family — and in an area where it is a daily struggle for a single child to stay alive. Yet, due to hard work and determination, I was the first in the Aukot family to join university," says Ekuru, who went to six different primary schools due to frequent nomadic conflicts. He eventually graduated with a Law degree from the University of Nairobi.

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Even with the high office appointments, Ekuru has been one of the foremost advocates for the rights of the minority groups such as refugees, IDPs and marginalised communities, especially those from the northern part of the country. They will always ask you how Kenya is after telling them that you have just come from Kitale. They will get a fright if you mention Nairobi," says Ekuru.

Ekuru remembers an incident when he went for a job interview after graduating from the University of Nairobi in A prospective employer who could hardly believe it when he heard that Ekurut is a graduate quipped in jest: "Wewe kijana unatoka Turkana na uko na degree. Umejaribu sana. Ekuru, who was admitted to the bar in , says things were no different when he came back to Kenya armed with a PhD in International Refugee Law from the University of Warwick in the UK.

Today is a special day for all of us. I stand here to submit my application to you, my potential employers, the Kenyan voters, and to request that you hire me as the next chief executive of Kenya for the next five years.

Ekuru aukot biography

As far as I can recall, there is no presidential aspirant to date this year who has made an application to the voters; some have made declarations that they are running, but on my part, I elect to apply for the job. I will run for this position for the second time, knowing very well the complexities involved in not only winning the race, but also running the government effectively.

I request that you consider this application alongside that of all other applicants. Interrogate our plans and proposals to lead our beloved Kenya to prosperity. Our function today deliberately coincides with the budget reading. This is the 10th budget for the Jubilee. We expect nothing much from this budget just like the situation has been in the last 10 years of the Jubilee administration.

Budgeting has been the genesis of all our economic problems. The Jubilee government has used the budgeting process as a platform to pre- plan stealing of public resources. After spending over The last 10 years of the Jubilee Administration has been a continuous reminder of the betrayal of the Independence promises: that we shall eradicate disease, ignorance, and poverty.

The status in our country and among Kenyans today, is more misery than we were at independence. In the case study, the Kenyan only feeds the family with maize flour as the basic staple food. This individual is left with a shortfall of KES 10, , and cannot afford other life basics. At this rate, a Kenyan earning 50, per month will end up with over KES , in This clearly demonstrates why the Jubilee administration and all its enablers need to go.

Kenyans should already begin to shun any surrogates of the Jubilee Administration including those who have been in this government. We need a fresh start with honest and authentic leadership. Detailed spending schedule. Kenya suffers from a leadership crisis — emanating from a greedy, lawless, feckless, rogue and dishonest leadership whose only interest is to use the government in order to access and primitively amass wealth at the expense of the This is the elephant in the room and must be confronted on August 9, How families that have held the presidency have ended up being billionaires without innovating anything is a clear indication of fraud, theft of public resources and abuse of office.

Kenyans must unite to end this culture, where robbers, economic saboteurs steal from the people and behind their tribes for protection. To dish out Kshs 6, per month which is a lie , wheelbarrows or giving loans or grants to our citizens to do business will not solve the leadership crisis in Kenya. We have to confront the corrupt leadership, now!

This problem must be confronted head on. The inequality in Kenya has been cultivated by irresponsible leaders. My profile is available online, but I will briefly state that I bring on board my experience as a teacher of law, legal practitioner, government advisor, constitutional expert, public administrator, politician and most importantly the commitment to serve the people of Kenya.

I have the necessary skills to steer Kenya out of the current crisis. We all agree that there is an urgent need to:. What changed in is the skin color of the colonialists, but the terms of enslavement remain the same or even worse. For far too long, the trees have lived with the axe, trusting that the axe will liberate the trees. No current leader in Kenya, including the current president, can coherently explain why Kenya cannot feed her people after 59 of independence; no one.

After 10 years of the Jubilee government, the majority of our youth are still jobless and are desperately struggling to make ends There are no words that can explain how over KES 23 trillion has been expended in 9 years and a majority of our people still live in abject poverty. Today, there is an attempt to install surrogates of this same administration in August This reminds me of the colonial succession plan when the colonialists handed over Kenya to their economic and political This was a continuity of colonialism under different skin color.

We are witnessing the same attempt in with the Jubilee Administration. Kenyans must wake up and expose that mischief. The Jubilee Government and its principals; — Uhuruto-Raila and all current governors have deliberately impoverished more Kenyans than any other previous regime. Deliberately impoverishing a whole generation, killing them painfully with hunger, and exposing them to the vagaries of poverty is a crime against humanity.

As a people, we must not sit back like collaborators and give this cabal another chance to instill pain on us We must explore all legal and viable options available to bring to an end of this parasitic leadership in Kenya. In March , Ekuru Aukot announced that he was launching a new legal challenge against the plan to send Kenyan police forces to Haiti, ravaged by gangs.

This Kenyan biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. His return to Kenya in was initially marked with disappointment. He ended up doing some consultancy work while keeping himself abreast with civil right issues by working closely with the civil society.

In , Ekuru landed a job as an executive director at Kituo Cha Sheria, an NGO whose main role is to offer legal aid and advice to the poor and marginalised in Kenya and beyond. One of his greatest accomplishments during his three-year tenure at Kituo Cha Sheria is re-structuring the programmes at the organisation and introducing the forced migration programme.

Despite the task being tedious and demanding, he is proud of his input in shaping policy and governance in Kenya and bridging the gap by coming up with a constitution that enables everyone to have a share in the national cake irrespective of their socio-economic background. Ekuru also joined a team of consultants of International IDEA, a government membership body that specialises in constitution building processes and democracy issues and has been involved in reviewing the constitutions of Tunisia, Egypt and currently Liberia, where he has been serving as the Chief Technical Advisor on the constitutional review process since January Working on the Kenyan constitution process gave Ekuru insight into the endemic problems in Kenya, key among them being paradoxical leadership with tribal inclinations which has resulted in many Kenyans being divided along tribal lines.

In a bid to provide alternative leadership, Ekuru and other like-minded individuals began a political movement called G47, based on mobilising membership from the 47 counties in Kenya, and providing leadership that reflects a more unified Kenya. He also chairs the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology JKUAT Council, where he and his team are currently in the process of linking research knowledge and innovation to industrialisation in order to advance Kenya.

Ekuru is not all work and no play. He enjoys travelling off-road, photography, nature and culture. Whenever he travels out of the country Ekuru enjoys collecting good music. Ekuru also enjoys reading autobiographies. Making a difference… In , Ekuru landed a job as an executive director at Kituo Cha Sheria, an NGO whose main role is to offer legal aid and advice to the poor and marginalised in Kenya and beyond.

Eating life with a big spoon… Ekuru is not all work and no play.