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Principal Secretary for State Department for Foreign Affairs Dr. Korir Singoei. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has faulted Parliament for scrapping diplomatic privileges and immunities granted to the Global Center for Adaptation (GCA), a climate change research agency that opened its headquarters in Nairobi last year.
Last week on Tuesday, February 24, the National Assembly adopted a report by the committee on Delegated Legislation, which recommended the nullification of the privileges enjoyed by the organisation whose CEO, Professor Patrick Verkooijen, doubles up as the Chancellor of the University of Nairobi (UoN).
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