{"id":23029,"date":"2019-06-04T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23029"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:36:33","slug":"kenya-us-citizenship-or-the-job-tough-choice-for-uhurus-appointee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/kenya-us-citizenship-or-the-job-tough-choice-for-uhurus-appointee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: US citizenship or the job? Tough choice for Uhuru\u2019s appointee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DAVID MWERE<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mwende Mwinzi, who has all but passed the parliamentary vetting for the position of Kenya&rsquo;s High Commissioner to Seoul, South Korea, now faces a tough choice.<\/p>\n<p>She can either renounce her US citizenship and take up the job or forget about the prestigious appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Section 31 (1) of the Leadership and Integrity Act provides that a State officer who acquires dual citizenship shall lose the position.<\/p>\n<p>Subsection two says that a person who holds dual citizenship shall, upon election or appointment to a State office, not take office before officially renouncing their other citizenship in accordance with the provisions of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Citizenship-shocker-for-Mwende-Mwinzi\/1056-5145252-pxpyhtz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Citizenship-shocker-for-Mwende-Mwinzi\/1056-5145252-pxpyhtz\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DAVID MWERE Ms Mwende Mwinzi, who has all but passed the parliamentary vetting for the position of Kenya&rsquo;s High Commissioner to Seoul, South Korea, now faces a tough choice. She can either renounce her US citizenship and take up the job or forget about the prestigious appointment. Section 31 (1) of the Leadership and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-660","item-theme-double-nationalite","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23030,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23029\/revisions\/23030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}