This archive report was first published on 10 October 2019.
On October 10, 2019, Mwende Mwinzi, a nominee for the Kenyan envoy to the Republic of Korea, filed a case in the High Court seeking to stop legislators from forcing her to renounce her US citizenship.
According to court documents, Ms. Mwinzi wants the court to consider removing the unlawful condition and protect her from what she has termed as outright discrimination by having her treated differently as well as unfairly.
Her lawyer, Prof. Tom Ojienda, argued that Ms. Mwinzi has successfully gone through the vetting process by the National Assembly and what remains is her deployment to the Republic of Korea.
Prof. Ojienda added, 'it is the duty of the CS to deploy the successful nominees and we therefore urge this court to make orders that her rights have been violated and that she [can be appointed] to a state office.'
However, as of Monday when the matter came up in court, the CS had not responded to the case but was granted more time to do so before the matter is mentioned on Friday.
Politicians such as AU envoy Raila Odinga have urged legislators to withdraw the decision of compelling Ms. Mwinzi to revoke her American citizenship.
