Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho has said that President Uhuru Kenyatta is aware that there are five ambassadorial positions that are currently vacant but that he needs time to appoint the right people to fill the positions. Kibicho was reacting to concerns from some quarters that State House is not acting fast enough to fill the positions after the terms of their previous holders expired. The Foreign Affairs PS said that Uhuru was contemplating the appointments more deeply because the Government was putting more impetus on their ability to drum up foreign investment for Kenya; "The President has announced that he intends to use foreign missions to boost economic activities for the benefit of the country and it is only fair we allow him to follow his own criteria in picking the right choices for ambassadors,” he said. Two former ambassadors Monica Juma and Richard Ekai have since been appointed to serve as Permanent Secretaries. The pair were previously Kenya’s envoys to Ethiopia and Thailand respectively. Uhuru has appointed a new envoy to US but embassies in Pakistan, Burundi and Canada still awaiting for an ambassador to be appointed. Kibicho also denied reports that the Jubilee Government would be conducting a wholesale replacement of ambassadors; “Only a small percentage of Kenyan missions will be affected and the notion that it is a blanket replacement in all our 52 missions is not correct,” he said.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 05:14:14 +0000
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