Akich Okola

Akich Okola (born November 2, 1937 in Maseno , Kisumu County ) is a Kenyan lawyer.

Life

Okola first worked for Shell in Kenya as an accountant in 1959/1960 before he began studying history and business administration at Central State College in Wilberforce , Ohio in September 1960 . He completed this in May 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then moved to Canada and studied law at the University of Toronto from September 1965 to May 1968 . During this time he was chairman of the debating club and worked on the magazine for his faculty. In May 1968 he obtained his second degree with a Bachelor of Laws . The following year, Okola was admitted to the bar. He initially worked in his own law firm in Toronto. In 1976 he moved to the New York office of the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton , where he mainly dealt with questions of commercial law. In 1980 Okola was given a teaching position at the Kenya School of Administration, where he gave lectures on civil, criminal and international law. In 1984 he joined the public service as an employee of the Ministry of Justice and between 1986 and 1990 advised various commissions of the Kenyan government. At the international level, Okola came from 1983 as deputy chairman of the Kenyan delegation in the preparatory commissions for the creation of the International Seabed Authority and the International Tribunal for the Sea , of which he was a member until 1997.

In addition, from 1986 to 1997 he was active in an Afro-Asian working group that dealt with questions of maritime law and was a member of the board of directors of Kenya Airways between 1986 and 1994 . From 1994 to 1997, Okola worked in the Attorney General's office, where he was responsible for constitutional law issues before retiring from all public offices at the end of the year. Two years later he reappeared as an advisor to the government. His task was to work with the World Bank to review public procurement for possible lack of transparency. In 1999 he then took on a project to reform the Kenyan judiciary, also funded by the World Bank . In 2007 Okola was appointed to the UN Human Rights Council as an expert on the human rights situation in Burundi . He is also a member of the Kenyan Public Procurement Administrative Review Board , which oversees public procurement in his home country.

Others

Okola was nominated in 2002 by the government of his home country as a candidate for a judge's position at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg . However, he could not unite the necessary number of votes in any of the three ballots. He is married and has three children.

Publications (selection)

• Report on the human rights situation in Burundi . United Nations, Geneva 2005.
• Interim report of the Independent Expert on the Human Rights Situation in Burundi, Akich Okola . United Nations, Geneva 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Election of members of the sub-commission on prevention of discrimination and protection of minorities. United Nations, February 7, 1994, accessed May 20, 2013 . 
2. ^ Daniela Karrenstein: The Human Rights Council of the United Nations (=  Jus Internationale et Europaeum . Volume 56 ). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150909-4 , p. 297 .
3. ^ Report of the twelfth Meeting of States Parties SPLOS / 91. (PDF; 2.1 MB) (No longer available online.) United Nations, June 13, 2002, p. 9 , formerly in the original ; accessed on May 19, 2013 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.