{"id":27723,"date":"2019-10-02T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27723"},"modified":"2020-07-20T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T15:58:04","slug":"kenya-omtatah-now-wants-10-mps-investigated-for-holding-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-omtatah-now-wants-10-mps-investigated-for-holding-dual-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Omtatah now wants 10 MPs investigated for holding dual citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hilary Kimuyu<\/p>\n<p>Activist Okiya Omtatah has written to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate at least 10 legislators who he claims have allegiance to foreign countries as they hold dual nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated October 1, Omtatah wrote to the anti-graft agency to investigate whether the National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale and nine other legislators.<\/p>\n<p>He wants the nine MPs, two Senators and one former MP probed for holding dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Omtatah consequently wants EACC to ascertain if the said MPs are in violation of the Constitution, which bars State officers from holding dual nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/nairobinews.nation.co.ke\/news\/omtatah-now-wants-10-mps-investigated-for-holding-dual-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/nairobinews.nation.co.ke\/news\/omtatah-now-wants-10-mps-investigated-for-holding-dual-citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Hilary Kimuyu Activist Okiya Omtatah has written to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate at least 10 legislators who he claims have allegiance to foreign countries as they hold dual nationalities. In a letter dated October 1, Omtatah wrote to the anti-graft agency to investigate whether the National Assembly Majority Leader Aden [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27724,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions\/27724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}