Eight diplomats appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018 have finally reported for duty, bringing to an end months of uncertainty surrounding their deployment.
However, Dr Hassan Wario and Mr Richard Ekai, who were to serve in Austria and Russia respectively, have been held back after being charged with offences relating to misspending funds allocated to the Kenyan team during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr Wario was the Cabinet secretary at the time and Mr Ekai his principal secretary.
The delay in the deployment of the diplomats had elicited rumours concerning their credibility, but Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau allayed fears.
He had indicated that the delay in posting the ambassadors was as a result of nothing more than protocol procedure.
The envoys form the second batch of appointments made last June. They include; former DCI boss Ndegwa Muhoro (Malaysia), former Ainamoi MP Benjamin Lang’at (Namibia), Lt-Gen (Rtd) Johnson Kimani Ondiek (Turkey), Ms Sarah Serem (China), Mr Paddy Ahenda (Qatar), Mr Nicholas Ogego (Saudi Arabia), Mr Chris Mburu (South Sudan), and Lt-Gen (Rtd) Samuel Thuita (Israel).