Thomas Letangule (born 11 December 1968) is a Kenyan constitutional and human rights lawyer and former commissioner at the

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(IEBC) of the Republic of Kenya from November 2011 to 2016.

Early life

Letangule was born on 11 December 1968 in

Ng'ambo Ng'ambo (literally, "The Other Side"; sometimes also referred to as the "New City") is one of the two main parts comprising Zanzibar City, the capital of Zanzibar, the other being the historical Stone Town. Ng'ambo is much larger and more mode ...

, a small village South West of

Lake Baringo Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of and an elevation of . The lake is fed by several rivers: the Molo River, Molo, Perkerra River, Perkerra and Ol Arabel. It has no obvio ...

. He went to Ng'ambo Primary School and Later Perkerra Primary School. He attended Marigat High school in 1984 before proceeding to Sacho High School for O-levels completing in 1989 and then joined the

University of Nairobi The University of Nairobi (uonbi or UoN; ) is a college, collegiate research university based in Nairobi and is the largest List of universities and colleges in Kenya, university in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution dat ...

to pursue a degree in Law; he graduated from the University of Nairobi Law School in 1993. Thereafter went for pupilage, before proceeding to obtain the Kenya School of Law Diploma in Legal Practice. He was admitted to the Bar as an Advocate of the

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on 20 June 1996.

Career

He went into private legal practice founding his firm, Letangule & Company Advocates in October 2004. In the March 2013 General Elections he chaired the IEBC Dispute Resolutions Tribunal handling over 2000 complaints from political parties nominations. In 2017, his bank accounts were frozen pending the hearing of a case filed by former Telkom employees. In 2020, he received Sh2.6 million compensation for medical negligence leading to the death of his wife, Esther, in childbirth in 2013. He self-published an autobiography, ''Trailblazer'', in 2017; it was the subject of an MA dissertation from the University of Nairobi.

Selected publications

References

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