{"id":107427,"date":"2025-01-10T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/namwamba-declares-sh500mn-net-worth-during-vetting-for-unep-post\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:03:11","slug":"namwamba-declares-sh500mn-net-worth-during-vetting-for-unep-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/namwamba-declares-sh500mn-net-worth-during-vetting-for-unep-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Namwamba declares Sh500mn net worth during vetting for UNEP post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 10 \u2013 The nominee for Kenya\u2019s Permanent Representative to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Abwabu Namwamba declares Sh500 million net worth comprising of real estate, business interests, shareholdings, pension.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He revealed this during his vetting before the National Assembly Committee of Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have two residents in Nairobi and Busia, business interests, shareholdings and pension. That has been compounded to Ksh.500 million,\u201d he stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have provided a statement that I would expect my income from my holdings. I hold some interest in Safaricom, Coop Bank, and Kenya Power and I have indicated without providing specifics because ordinarily, you would not know the dividends accrued to you in a specific cycle.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Namwamba was nominated alongside three others; former ICT CS Margaret Nyambura Ndung\u2019u (High Commissioner in Ghana), Gertrude Angote (High Commission in Zimbabwe) and former Agriculture CS Andrew Karanja (Kenya\u2019s Ambassador to Brazil).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former ICT CS, however, declined the nomination, citing personal reasons.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 10 \u2013 The nominee for Kenya\u2019s Permanent Representative to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Abwabu Namwamba declares Sh500 million net worth comprising of real estate, business interests, shareholdings, pension.\u00a0 He revealed this during his vetting before the National Assembly Committee of Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations.\u00a0 \u201cI have two residents in Nairobi [&hellip;]<\/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-107427","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\/107427","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=107427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}