This archive report was first published on 4 October 2019.
Published on October 4, 2019, National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has dismissed allegations of holding dual citizenship.
According to Duale, he has never held citizenship of any other nation other than Kenya, and he is a proud Kenyan citizen.
"It is a matter of public notoriety that I am a proud Kenyan citizen and I do not hold dual citizenship and I have never held citizenship of another country and will never do. Mimi ni Mkenya kwa damu na daima nitazidi kuwa Mkenya," Duale wrote on his social media pages.
Following the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission's (EACC) decision to investigate Duale and nine other MPs accused of being dual citizens, Duale claimed he was being blackmailed over his refusal to facilitate the approval of President Kenyatta's nominee for Kenya's High Commissioner to South Korea, Mwende Mwinzi.
"Parliament shall not be arm-twisted or blackmailed. Indeed the so-called public interest litigators should have looked for other "clever" ways of arm twisting Parliament. This one falls flat like a flat tyre," Duale noted.
