ENVOYS APPOINTED by Uhuru have reported for duty except Hassan Wario and Ekai, who are facing graft charges; Foreign Affairs PS James Macharia has come clean about this matter.
Dr Wario and Mr Ekai are facing charges related to the misuse of funds during the Rio Olympics. They were to serve in Austria and Russia respectively.
Dr Wario had already sent his family to Vienna, and the Austrian government had scheduled his reception for October.
The ambassadors were endorsed by the legislators although the character of some of them were called into question, with Opposition members walking out in protest.
The National Assembly Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations has held emergency meetings with senior officials in the Foreign ministry, to no avail.
“We are aware of the matter but there is little we can do,” a member of the committee said.
Hosting states also conduct independent assessments of the appointees, and can accept or reject them.
And they are not even obliged to inform the sending state of their reasons for rejecting an appointee. In most cases, they simply delay accepting credentials.