GEORGE WAJACKOYAH

George Wajackoyah was born on October 24^th, 1959. He grew up in Mumias being raised by his grandparents since his parents divorced when he was still young. His thirst for wanting to know where his mother grew in him forced him to leave in search of his mother only for him to later land in Nairobi.

Landing in Nairobi, he did not have stable housing which forced him into the streets until he became lucky of being rescued by Hare Krishna who offered him a place at the temple in Ng’ara,  when he was at the age of 15-16yrs.

The Asian decided to take him to school at Kenya College where he studied for form one and two.  For form three and four an Asian known as Ramla Ishaman took him to City High School. He finished high school in 1979 being among the last lot to do the East Africa Certificate of Education.

He further enhanced his studies, form five and six through the help of John Joseph Kamotho who funded his education for all the two years at St Peter’s Mumias. Unfortunately, he was unable to get grades that would take him to University and he ended up coming back to City High School as an untrained teacher. He also taught at Ravals School and later taught at Shikoti girls in Western.

George Wajackoyah later joined the Kenya Police and worked at Pangani Police Station, Kasarani Police Station, and later joined the National Security where he worked for ten years. From here George Wajackoyah was granted a scholarship to study French at KIA and later did an advanced diploma in French at Burundi.

When Robert Ouko died in Feb 1990, George Wajackoyah was among the panel chosen to investigate the case. He brushed shoulders along the way with his colleagues while handling the case and later got detained for a very long time.

George Wajackoyah got saved by an American Ambassador who moved him to Europe. He started his life over again. He looked for small jobs that would sustain his daily needs among them being digging graves.  Refugees in Europe back then would school for free, and this motivated George Wajackoyah to study law. He studied his bachelor of law at Wolverhampton while still digging graves then later studied at the University of London SOAS about immigration law.

He later joined a law firm where he worked for a while. As his quest for education never seized he later joined Warwick Law School for his masters

As he was studying he grew a passion for fighting for the rights of his people, and with this, he joined the Kenya Pressure Groups in the UK when he was a student leader at the University of London.

In 2002, George Wajackoyah joined the University of Baltimore school of law for a master’s degree. He later moved to California and became an adjunct professor. An adjunct professor is a part-time professor.

Wajackoyah decided to come back to Kenya after having stayed in the US from 199 to 2012. He came back and vied for the presidency seat among 23 other presidential candidates that were running their campaigns but unfortunately lost.

George Luchiri Wajackoyah is currently the party leader of the Roots Party and has been granted his nomination certificate by IEBC to vie for the presidency seat. His party remains to be the only part that does not ask for money from the candidates they have running under their party.