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    "content": "leave Seoul. That means that your ambassador must leave that country. If President Donald Trump says, I do not want to see any American citizen live in South Korea and in Seoul, I can tell you for free, your ambassador, because she is an American citizen will leave. What happens when there will be a conflict between the country that places Kenya and America in a conflict diplomatically? Who will you serve. Even the Heads of State in the African continent who have dual citizenship, one belonging to the US, when it comes to United Nations General Assembly in New York, they are not allowed to use the US passport. The only person who appears at the UN General Assembly as the President of the US is the President of the US. Even today we cannot give a job to former US President Obama. If we have to give him a job, he must renounce his US citizenship. It is as clear as that. Nobody is denying Mwende Mwinzi a job. We are saying the law must be complied with. We have vetted and we are approving her appointment but subject to the law. This morning in the Kamukunji we said the House must follow the law and the Constitution. If tomorrow, a report comes and there is something on a nominee from Hon. Junet and I, from our community… In fact, the Committee has not rejected the nominee. They have approved her. They have only said before she takes up the appointment… In fact, we will go further and bring an amendment to the law that anybody serving in the national or county governments, Judiciary or in the Legislature and did not renounce his or her dual citizenship, the DCI and the DPP must start investigations. That is a breach of the law. In fact, the Committee should have gone further to require that if there is any ambassador or High Commissioner, whether you were born to a foreigner or not, and you have dual citizenship, you are in breach of the law and somebody can go to court. Some of us do not want to embarrass the President. There must have been due diligence. Whoever gives people jobs in this country must do due diligence and read the law. Let us not raise tension. Mwende Mwinzi has a job as our Ambassador to Seoul subject to her complying with Article 31 of the Constitution. I want to thank the Chairman. He has given us other jurisdictions. He has talked about the former Foreign Affairs Minister Boris Yeltsin who was born in the US. For him to become a Member of Parliament in the UK, he had to renounce his US citizenship. These are very sensitive jobs. In fact, the Constitution is very clear when it comes to members of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). You cannot use the Constitution the way you want. We must not break the law just because some of our colleagues, CSs or PSs have dual citizenship. Those who sit in this House and have dual citizenship have two weeks to renounce it. If you do not renounce, somebody will go to court and use this law. You have no choice. You cannot just run from the Diaspora after making some little money and you want to vie for governorship. The law is very clear. The IEBC has not committed any crime. They will declare you. But the day you are given the winning certificate by the Returning Officer, the following morning before you are sworn in as a Member of Parliament, you must renounce. That is what the law says. We have nothing against anybody. This House must work to protect the Constitution. Whether somebody comes from your village or they are your friend--- There are many Kenyans from Mwingi who can be given this job if our sister does not comply. She has to weigh. I agree she did not get a green card because she was born in the US."
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