Pius Tawfiq Namwamba Ababu is a Kenyan politician. A member of the Orange Democratic Movement, Namwamba was elected to represent Budalangi Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007.[1]
Ababu Namwamba is a Public Interest Attorney specializing in international human rights and constitutional law, and a columnist with a leading newspaper in Kenya. He was born in Uganda to Kenyan parents and raised in Kenya.
He is currently the Chief Counsel at the Chambers of Justice, which is a Public Interest Foundation he founded in 2002. He also heads his own legal practice, Ababu Namwamba & Co. in Nairobi , Kenya. Mr. Namwamba has made significant contributions to the democratization struggle in Kenya , right from his days as a student leader at the University of Nairobi. Since 2003, he has advocated for democracy and good governance in Kenya in a research process dubbed “After the Promise”, which critically analyses performance of government and other political actors.