NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 10 \u2013 Outgoing Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary Margaret Nyambura Ndung\u2019u has declined President William Ruto\u2019s nomination tobe Kenya\u2019s ambassdor to Ghana.<\/p>\n
In a letter addressed to the Parliamentary Vetting Committee Nyambura rejected the nomination to serve in the proposed role citing personal reasons and family matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish to inform you that I will not appear before the State Committee for the approval hearing. This has been occasioned by my personal and compelling family matters, which matters of\u00a0taking into consideration will not allow me to take up the position of the High Commissioner\u00a0to Ghana,\u201d read the letter in part.<\/p>\n
Nyambura who was scheduled to appear before the Departmental Committee\u00a0on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations on Friday notified the Parliamentary Vetting Committee that she will not appear before it for the approval hearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo save the precious time of the important parliamentary business,\u00a0kindly take note that this letter serves as\u00a0a notice not to appear.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you for the invitation and follow-up,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Nyambura who previously served as the Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy, was appointed as Kenya\u2019s High Commissioner to Ghana on November 19 2024<\/p>\n
The Former CS was among the Cabinet Secretaries dropped by president Ruto in his recent Cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n
Nyambura\u00a0 who \u00a0was dropped with other Cabinet Secretaries during the cabinet changes now becomes the Second nominee to decline the ambassador nomination to Ghana.<\/p>\n
Others that were dropped include \u00a0\u00a0Andrew Karanja, the former Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development, who was nominated as Kenya\u2019s Ambassador to Brazil.<\/p>\n
Following her appointment to represent Kenya in Ghana in the Ambassadorial job position\u00a0 former \u00a0Kiambu Governor William Kabogo was nominated to take over as Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy.<\/p>\n
Former Health CS Mutahi Kagwe, was also nominated by the President to lead the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development replacing Karanja who was nominated as Kenya\u2019s Ambassador to Brazil.<\/p>\n
State House Chief of Staff Felix Koskei \u00a0announced that the Cabinet changes are part of President Ruto\u2019s efforts to realign his government for enhanced service delivery under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 10 \u2013 Outgoing Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary Margaret Nyambura Ndung\u2019u has declined President William Ruto\u2019s nomination tobe Kenya\u2019s ambassdor to Ghana. In a letter addressed to the Parliamentary Vetting Committee Nyambura rejected the nomination to serve in the proposed role citing personal reasons and family matters. \u201cI wish to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}