President Ruto has appointed former Machakos Governor Dr. Alfred Mutua as the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Diaspora.
Mutua, who served as the governor for Machakos for two terms, takes over from Raychelle Omamo, who has been in charge of the Foreign Office since 2020.
He previously served as the Government Spokesperson in President Kibaki’s administration. Mutua also doubled up as the Public Communications Secretary and Head of the Office of Public Communications in the Office of the President.
During his inauguration, President Ruto pledged to create the Ministry of Diaspora to specifically address issues affecting Kenyans living and working abroad.
“We have elevated our diaspora to be the 48th County. The complaint has been that the diaspora has not received the attention they deserve. The focus has been on remittances, while their fundamental rights as citizens have been neglected. To correct this oversight, I pledge to elevate diaspora issues at a ministry level,” Ruto said.
The president also said his government will strengthen diaspora services in all embassies and set up a mechanism for public participation by the Kenyans living abroad. His administration will also work with Parliament to set up a committee that will exclusively deal with diaspora issues.
He further pledged to work with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to ensure Kenyans living in the diaspora have greater participation in future elections.
what do all MFs who did not…
what do all MFs who did not vote ruto has to say? lets hear y’all trash talk this guy like u have been doing! he is delivering and I don not regret my vote proudly casted in LA
It is wrong to use…
It is wrong to use inappropriate language in a public forum.
Kenyan Embassy in Washington…
Kenyan Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Our Embassy in Washington should be one of your top priorities in your new assignment. Why?
1. There are very incompetent employees who do not take their job seriously. For example, when you call the embassy, your phone is rarely answered. There are times when the phone rings repeatedly for a long time and then silence follows and remains.
2. When the voicemail is activated, they ordinarily ask the caller to leave their name, phone number, and a brief message. You (the caller) is assured their phone call will be answered! This does not happen.
3. If you are lucky and your phone call has a live response, the one responding your phone is usually rude, inconsiderate, arrogant, and occasionally yells at the caller for absolutely no reason.
My recommendations:
All the current embassy employees should be recalled, retrained and hired in Kenya where efficiency is not a priority.
Thank you, Patel, I couldn’t…
Thank you, Patel, I couldn’t have said it better!
The DC embassy should be…
The DC embassy should be closed as it is owned by it’s staff who as Gacukari(an embassy employee) arrogantly put it-TO SERVE THE PRESIDENT.Why should taxpayers finance an embassy which does not assist them?
London High Commission is…
London High Commission is worse, probably the worst in Europe. It takes on average two years to obtain your passport if you’re lucky. We applied for biometric Kenyan passports four years ago, we are still waiting! The staff at the UK high commission are totally incompetent and the whole lot should be replaced as they keep telling us it’s easier to fly to Nairobi to obtain documentation. Obtaining Birth Certs for children is a nightmare, in general obtaining any type of Kenyan official documentation is an onerous task as I suppose the records are still manual rather than digitised! You need to provide a sack of documentation, a myriad of photocopies of documentation to obtain replacement IDs, Birth certs etc. Parents find it easier to travel to Kenya to obtain documentation given the nightmare of obtaining any assistance from the high commission. Staff are inefficient, rude and unprofessional. Speaking of which, why do Kenyans have to lose citizenship when they obtain other citizenship per the new constitution. Most developed countries don’t make you lose your citizenship as a result of obtaining dual citizenship? In Short it normally takes two weeks to obtain a passport or official document in developed countries, six weeks during high seasons and this is done via online application, not even in person. It takes years, most likely a plane ticket and wasted phone calls to Kenyan Consulates for the same.
Unless you changed your…
Unless you changed your citizenship prior the 2010 enactment of Kenyan Constitution, you are still one. But the irony is how the High court ruled on ‘ General Miguna×2. The court ruled that the General does not need to reapply even though he changed his citizenship to a Canadian prior 2010 Constitution…maybe the baby faced ” divorcee-incheif ” now CS foreign and Diaspora affairs Dr.. Mutua Ezekiel will clarify.
Yes Yes Yes!
Yes Yes Yes!
I think Mutua will handle…
I think Mutua will handle that docket pretty well to make gold digger Lil a little jealous!
God digger Lil and her new…
God digger Lil and her new hubby are broke. They were on the newspaper last week.
Nine out of ten Kenyans…
Nine out of ten Kenyans living abroad enjoy a good lifestyle, no need for additional ministry. A department in FA to address the issue of domestic and casual laborers would be adequate. Only simpletons will be impressed.
! Nyamu! How did you arrive…
! Nyamu! How did you arrive at your statistics that 9/10 enjoy their life abroad?… the reality is that we are the saddest people in the world. We are stuck and its hard to return. When we try, we fly back in droves, not because Kenya is uninhabitable, but once an immigrant you loose the skills to survive there, your friends and relations put pressure on your small dollars among many other myriad of misfortunes…
You’re only stuck if you…
You’re only stuck if you wish to be. Don’t compare Kenya with the West and you won’t be disappointed. You don’t have to drive the biggest or the most powerful SUV and you don’t need to live up to some ridiculous expectation of how a former diasporan should live. Remember too that in Kenya you are just a man or a woman without black being attached to it. Yes people will have their hands out but as I’ve said before, treat the word “No” as a complete sentence.
I agree with you on how…
I agree with you on how useless a ministry devoted to the diaspora is when a dedicated department in Foreign Affairs with staff that actually care would be way more effective and cheaper to boot. As far as happiness, we may have things only the upper income types in Kenya can afford and I enjoy having these things but happiness is more than just material things (though I can’t lie, they don’t hurt).
London High Commission is…
London High Commission is worse, probably the worst in Europe. It takes on average two years to obtain your passport if you’re lucky. We applied for biometric Kenyan passports four years ago, we are still waiting! The staff at the UK high commission are totally incompetent and the whole lot should be replaced as they keep telling us it’s easier to fly to Nairobi to obtain documentation. Obtaining Birth Certs for children is a nightmare, in general obtaining any type of Kenyan official documentation is an onerous task as I suppose the records are still manual rather than digitised! You need to provide a sack of documentation, a myriad of photocopies of documentation to obtain replacement IDs, Birth certs etc. Parents find it easier to travel to Kenya to obtain documentation given the nightmare of obtaining any assistance from the high commission. Staff are inefficient, rude and unprofessional. Speaking of which, why do Kenyans have to lose citizenship when they obtain other citizenship per the new constitution. Most developed countries don’t make you lose your citizenship as a result of obtaining dual citizenship? In Short it normally takes two weeks to obtain a passport or official document in developed countries, six weeks during high seasons and this is done via online application, not even in person. It takes years, most likely a plane ticket and wasted phone calls to Kenyan Consulates for the same.
The London High Commission…
The London High Commission is worse. They go as far as advising people to go to Kenya to obtain services that the rude unprofessional incompetent inept commission is unable to provide. Applications are stuck for years with no support and your better off, if you can manage and only if, travel to Kenya to obtain a simple birth certificate. We are still in the era of posting photocopies when the world has moved to digitisation, online applications etc. Manual inept processes coupled with unprofessional staff.
It appears Kenya embassies…
It appears Kenya embassies suffer from the same level of incompetence and rudeness. Unless they can train the people working there, a new ministry just adds a burden on the Kenya taxpayer. Maybe Mūtua will up the service levels given that he might have dealt with embassies and consulates in the US and Australia. BTW the Perth consulate appears to take the prize in this race to the bottom. https://www.google.com/search?q=kenya+embassy+australia&oq=&aqs=chrome.0.35i39i362j46i39i362j35i39i362l3j46i39i199i362i465j35i39i362l2j46i39i362j46i39i199i362i465j35i39i362l5.-1j1j7&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#lkt=LocalPoiReviews&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D&trex=m_t:lcl_akp,rc_f:rln,rc_ludocids:13920086953656145564,ru_gwp:0%252C7,ru_lqi:ChdrZW55YSBlbWJhc3N5IGF1c3RyYWxpYUjck6PT7aqAgAhaIRAAEAEYABgBIhdrZW55YSBlbWJhc3N5IGF1c3RyYWxpYZIBEWZvcmVpZ25fY29uc3VsYXRlqgEPEAEqCyIHZW1iYXNzeSgA4AEA,trex_id:ljxwKc
I believe that just about…
I believe that just about all vacancies in our embassies are field by applicants to the openings available,and that the qualified candidate is pick- normally.Folks correct me if Iam wrong.That said, it then follows that selection process is flawed since it keeps on generating incompetent staff.
And speaking for Kenyans in USA, after leaving here and seeing how customer service is handled,professionally,in most cases,how could you botch your work after getting an opportunity to work for the embassy?
@Mundumugo, training will only be successful with competently selected staff.Meaning, you cannot train crook to be upright employees.You punish them to deter the practice.
And he has to for our…
And he has to for our immigration offices in Kenya mostly eldoret una apply passport unaishi mpaka unaisahau