 Since 2016 he has been the leader of the Labour Party of Kenya and is currently the Chief Administrative Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya.Ababu Namwamba was born in Jinja, Uganda to Kenyan parents on 23 December 1975, and raised in Uganda and later Kenya.Outside politics he is a public interest attorney specializing in international human rights and constitutional law, and a former columnist with leading newspapers in Kenya.