{"id":113183,"date":"2025-04-07T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/nakhumicha-says-un-posting-a-promotion-not-a-demotion-during-vetting\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:05:13","slug":"nakhumicha-says-un-posting-a-promotion-not-a-demotion-during-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nakhumicha-says-un-posting-a-promotion-not-a-demotion-during-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakhumicha Says UN Posting a Promotion, Not a Demotion during Vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 7 \u2013 Former Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has said her nomination as Kenya\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN-Habitat is a promotion, not a demotion, insisting she left the Ministry of Health with her head held high.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during her vetting before the National Assembly\u2019s Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations, Nakhumicha dismissed claims that her exit from the Cabinet was a result of incompetence or failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving gone from a farmer to a Permanent Representative, I consider that a promotion. I don\u2019t see it as a demotion.I have been a very good farmer in Trans Nzoia County since my exit doing both livestock and crop farming. This new role is an honor,\u201dshe expressed.<\/p>\n<p>She was responding to questioning from MPs over her tenure as Health CS, which was marred by a 56 day doctors\u2019 strike, a scandal surrounding the KEMSA mosquito net tender, and allegations of fraudulent NHIF claims.<\/p>\n<p>Nakhumicha maintained she performed her duties diligently and was never reprimanded by President William Ruto despite the push for her removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was never reprimanded by my boss and never asked performance based questions. Every time I was called to the National Assembly or Senate to respond to questions, I never failed I responded to them satisfactorily,\u201d the nominee expressed.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to the national honors awarded to her during her time in office saying the accusations of incompetence against her are baseless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo those who are saying I was incompetent, I was awarded the Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart (EGH)the second highest honor in Kenya and the highest for a civilian. I was also recognized in other forums,\u201d she told the committee.<\/p>\n<p>She attributed her exit from Cabinet to broader political events rather than personal shortcomings, specifically citing the Gen Z-led protests that shook the country and prompted a cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot from a reason of my own making, the Gen Z movement was unprecedented in this country and the Cabinet was dissolved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Nakhumicha submitted before the MPs that her removal from office based on the challenges she faced in the docket are part of the nature of public service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost jobs have occupational hazards, and as Cabinet Secretary, I would regard them as such. In this new post, there will be occupational hazards as well, and I will handle them with the advice I will be given,\u201dshe said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 7 \u2013 Former Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has said her nomination as Kenya\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN-Habitat is a promotion, not a demotion, insisting she left the Ministry of Health with her head held high. Speaking during her vetting before the National Assembly\u2019s Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations, [&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-113183","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\/113183","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=113183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}