{"id":43087,"date":"2026-05-10T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=43087"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:40:54","slug":"kenya-why-ags-office-wants-changes-to-bill-granting-citizenship-for-stateless-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-why-ags-office-wants-changes-to-bill-granting-citizenship-for-stateless-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Why AG&#8217;s office wants changes to Bill granting citizenship for stateless persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Ogada<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney-General has raised concerns over proposed legislation that seeks to grant citizenship to stateless persons who have been living in the country for the last seven<br \/>\nyears.<\/p>\n<p>Through Solicitor-General Shadrack Mose, the State Law Office told the National Assembly Committee on National Security and Administration that the move risks being abused by<br \/>\npersons who have no intention of staying in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read further ($$): <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/why-ag-s-office-wants-changes-to-bill-granting-citizenship-for-stateless-persons-5444174#story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/why-ag-s-office-wants-changes-to-bill-granting-citizenship-for-stateless-persons-5444174#story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Ogada The Office of the Attorney-General has raised concerns over proposed legislation that seeks to grant citizenship to stateless persons who have been living in the country for the last seven years. Through Solicitor-General Shadrack Mose, the State Law Office told the National Assembly Committee on National Security and Administration that the move risks [&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-43087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087","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=43087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43088,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087\/revisions\/43088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}