About Benson Odiwuor Otieno (Saguom)
Brief About Benson Odiwuor Otieno
Benson's deep-seated passion for justice and fairness drew him to pursue a degree in law. He saw law as a tool to uphold rights, fight against injustices, and engineer desired changes in society.
From the moment he was admitted to university, he was a well-rounded student who excelled in
extracurricular activities, academics, and the leadership roles he held on campus. He founded
the Seventh Day Adventist Students, a group of Adventist students in the school during his first
semester of university, and served as its first chair. In his second year, he ran for and won the
position of student President of the Law School.
Odiwuor is a self-driven changemaker.
He oversaw the creation of the Christian Legal Society (CLS) while serving as president of the
LAANU, which continues to give African Nazarene University law students a place to integrate
their Christian faith into their legal education and make law a healing profession. He became the
founding president of the CLS. Furthermore, he also started the ANU Integrity club in his third year of
university. The club strives to engage students in ethics and integrity learning, enabling them to
seek integrity and ethics as the cornerstones of their lives. Also, he co-founded the Homa Bay
College and University Students Association in his hometown, which connects the constituency's
youth in tertiary education. Around the same period, he became a founding member of the
Federation of African Law Students (FALAS).
Benson had the honour of being appointed to numerous positions at the institution, including the
Student Electronic Voting Technology Committee, and devised an electronic voting system that
was implemented for conducting student elections. In his final year, he assisted in the founding of the ANULS Legal Aid Clinic and was named
chair of the Legal Aid Clinic's Human Rights Department. He also organized a national religious
liberty moot court competition, which was hosted virtually by the Christian Legal Society of
Africa Nazarene University, and he left a system in place to ensure the club's annual All-Africa
Religious Liberty Moot Court Competition continues in the future.
He graduated with an LL.B degree from Africa Nazarene University in July 2022 and joined the Kenya School of Law in February 2023 for his Bar Course. He is currently a Trainee Advocate at TripleOKLaw LLP Advocates. He is known for his creativity, boldness , honesty and dependability in all he does.
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