Amos Wako

Amos Wako (born 31 July 1945) is a former Attorney General of Kenya and the first senator for Busia County from 2013 to 2022.

He won the senator seat on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) being led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

In 1977, Wako was awarded fellow International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and in 1978 he was honoured as a lifetime member of Wiltshire Bar Association.

Piloted through Parliament the necessary Constitutional amendments and legislation including providing for a multi-party democratic State and setting up of an independent Electoral Commission.

Chaired National Constitutional Conferences consisting of Members of Parliament, religious leaders and representatives of the civil society.

[3][4] He joined the Orange Democratic Movement, on whose ticket he contested the Busia senate seat in the 4 March General Election.

[5] On 18 November 2019, the US State Department announced that Amos Wako, his wife and child were barred for travel to the US due to significant corruption.