Martha karua date of birth

Abstract

This 34minutes 27seconds-long video was recorded in 2018 and features Hon. Martha Karua. Hon. Karua was born and raised in Kirinyaga. Upon completing primary school, she joined Nairobi Girls Secondary and later the University of Nairobi. After graduating, she worked as a magistrate for six years. In July 1987, she went into private practice. She became active in the Law Society of Kenya at a time when Kenya was a single-party state and when Kenyans were complaining of the emasculation of their rights by the single party and had affiliated key institutions including MYWO and COTU but when the President tried to co-opt the Law Society to Government, she and other young lawyers protested against. Hon. Karua notes that her “activism was born of the efforts to protect the independence of the Professional body of the Law Society of Kenya”. This is what motivated her to vie for a seat on the council of the LSK. She had come to the realization that you do not practice your profession in a vacuum but within a social, economic and political context and the politics o

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