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"content": "(vi) Amb. Tom Amolo - Ambassador to Berlin, Germany. (vii) Mr. Lindsay Kiptiness - Ambassador to Bangkok, Thailand. (viii) Amb. Daniel Wambura - Ambassador to Bujumbura, Burundi. (ix) Ms. Stella Munyi - Ambassador to Harare, Zimbabwe. (x) Maj. Gen. (Rtd.) Samuel Nandwa - Ambassador to Juba, South Sudan. (xi) Maj. Gen. (Rtd.) Ngewa Mukala - Ambassador to Khartoum, Sudan. (xii) Amb. Benson Ogutu - Ambassador to Moscow, Russia. (xiii) Mr. Joshua Gatimu - Ambassador to Tehran, Iran. (xiv) Amb. Tabu Irina - Ambassador to Tokyo, Japan. Hon. Speaker, let me add two names because the letter which was sent by His Excellency the President to the House on 15th October 2020, had 16 names. The other two are Amb. Jean Kamau as Ambassador to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Amb. Lemarron Kaanto, as Ambassador to Brazil. So they were 16. Hon. Speaker, the House will agree with me that 90 per cent of the nominees that I read, already have the title “ambassador”. Meaning they are actually serving as ambassadors either at the headquarters in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or they are being moved from a certain station to the other. That makes our work easier because these are career diplomats. We perused our records and realised that the two I have added to the list, namely, Amb. Jean Kamau and Amb. Lemarron Kaanto, were vetted on 10th September 2014 and 19th June 2019 respectively. So, they are being moved from the previous stations to new ones. Therefore, they do not require further vetting. Therefore, we vetted 14 nominees. It is also good for the House to note that for the first time and with the approval of the Speaker, the Committee applied Standing Order No.265A and vetted two nominees virtually and in strict compliance and adherence to the Ministry of Health COVID-19 protocols as the two nominees had tested positive to COVID-19. Actually, they are on their way to recovery. A day before vetting, we had already done the first test and after the 14 days of isolation for one of them, he tested negative, but the rule is that you have to test negative three consecutive times. So, they are okay and they performed very well in their virtual vetting. When we received these names as a requirement of the law, Parliament, specifically the National Assembly, wrote to an institution authorised by law to undertake investigation on nominees. On matters touching on integrity, tax compliance, loan repayments and political party affiliations, this institution had the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and political parties. All of them approved or cleared these nominees. Again, as a requirement of the law, the National Assembly also placed a seven-day notice in the media calling for public participation, pursuant to Article 118 of the Constitution, Sub-Section 6 (4) of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act of 2011, and also pursuant to our own Standing Orders, specifically Standing Order No.45 (3). The public did not write anything for or against these nominees save for one letter, which was just a testimonial letter, written in support of one nominee. Therefore, it was not a memorandum really; it did not meet the threshold as required."
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