Untitled - Africa Centre for Open Governance
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Amos Wako: Poisoned Legacy<br />
Another significant development in the justice sector occurred when the curtain<br />
finally came down on the tenure of the country’s long serving Attorney General.<br />
To mark the change of guard at the office of the Attorney General, AfriCOG<br />
made a critical assessment of the tenure of Amos Sitswila Wako who was the<br />
Attorney General of Kenya from May 1991 to August 2011. In a publication<br />
titled ‘Poisoned Legacy” AfriCOG narrates how, under Amos Wako’s watch, the<br />
credibility of the office of the Attorney General was destroyed as a result of his<br />
complete failure to exercise authority in a way that imposed on the Kenyan<br />
political system the values <strong>for</strong> which the office was first established. The report<br />
analyses Wako’s per<strong>for</strong>mance in main areas and concludes by warning that the<br />
struggle to achieve the full promise of Kenya’s new Constitution could fall prey<br />
to Wako’s poisoned legacy of protection of incompetence, impunity, corruption<br />
and massive human rights abuses.<br />
See Poisoned Legacy: Assessing Amos Wako’s Per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
http://africog.org/sites/default/files/Poisoned%20Legacy.pdf<br />
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