{"id":15945,"date":"2024-08-02T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:22:21","slug":"duale-defends-decision-to-ignore-mps-call-amid-corruption-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15945","title":{"rendered":"Duale Defends Decision to Ignore MP\u2019s Call Amid Corruption Concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/images-4-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15946\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During his vetting by the National Assembly&#8217;s Committee on Appointments on Friday, Aden Duale, the nominee for Environment and Forestry Cabinet Secretary, revealed that he intentionally ignored a call from Teso South MP Mary Emaase while serving as Defence Minister. Duale explained his actions were driven by concerns about being implicated in corrupt practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duale apologized to MP Emaase, explaining that he feared the call would involve requests to secure military recruitment slots for her constituents. &#8220;I am very sorry Honourable Emaase if I did not pick up your call because I was scared you would ask me to recruit somebody for you. It is the only recruitment I did under my leadership,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Emaase clarified that her call was not an attempt to influence recruitment but to address complaints from her constituents who were reportedly being unfairly dismissed from recruitment centers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suna East MP Junet Mohamed supported Emaase&#8217;s concerns, highlighting corruption in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) recruitment process as a pressing issue requiring immediate attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his rebuttal, Duale maintained that the KDF recruitment process was distinct from police recruitment and justified the dismissal of Emaase&#8217;s constituents. &#8220;There are many leaders who sent me messages that their people had been chased away, and in ten minutes the leadership of KDF gave me the reasons why they chased away the individuals,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his vetting by the National Assembly&#8217;s Committee on Appointments on Friday, Aden Duale, the nominee for Environment and Forestry Cabinet Secretary, revealed that he intentionally ignored a call from Teso South MP Mary Emaase while serving as Defence Minister. Duale explained his actions were driven by concerns about being implicated in corrupt practices. Duale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/images-4-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15947,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions\/15947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}