{"id":137064,"date":"2026-04-08T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-names-humphrey-wattanga-in-foreign-service-postings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:02:50","slug":"ruto-names-humphrey-wattanga-in-foreign-service-postings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-names-humphrey-wattanga-in-foreign-service-postings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto names Humphrey Wattanga in foreign service postings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President William Ruto has effected nominations within the Kenya\u2019s Foreign Service to support the expansion of the nation\u2019s diplomatic footprint.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Head of Public Service Felix, noted that these arise from the regular cycle of succession within Kenya\u2019s missions abroad and to support the expansion of the nation\u2019s diplomatic presence worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Among those nominated are Humphrey Wattanga who has been nominated as High Commissioner to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Pretoria<\/span><\/span>, South Africa. Wattanga was recently the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Commissioner General.<\/p>\n<p>Other nominations include Dr. Julius Murori Mbijiwe who has been nominated as the High Commissioner\/Ambassador to the Vatican (<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Vatican City<\/span><\/span>), Amb. Irene Maswan appointed as Deputy Ambassador to London while Amb. Judy Muthoni Njau has been posted to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brussels<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations have been transmitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fulfilment of the constitutional imperatives on the appointment of State officers, His Excellency the President has caused the transmittal of the Nominations to the National Assembly for consideration and approval by Parliament,\u201d Koskei said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/ruto-names-wattanga-in-foreign-service-postings\/\">Ruto names Humphrey Wattanga in foreign service postings<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto has effected nominations within the Kenya\u2019s Foreign Service to support the expansion of the nation\u2019s diplomatic footprint. In a statement, the Head of Public Service Felix, noted that these arise from the regular cycle of succession within Kenya\u2019s missions abroad and to support the expansion of the nation\u2019s diplomatic presence worldwide. Among [&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-137064","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\/137064","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=137064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}