Godec to remain in offi ce, as other US envoys resign
Jan. 24, 2017, 3:00 am
By SAMUEL KISIKA @kisikasam
US Ambassador
to Kenya Robert Godec during one year anniversary celebration of the first
women's entrepreneurship center in Kenya at the Wecreate-Kenya Centre in
Nairobi on November 17, 2016./ Jack Owuor
US Ambassador
Robert Godec will not quit and services at the embassy will go on
uninterrupted.
The Star has
learned that Godec is not affected by US President Donald Trump’s anticipated
administrative changes in all embassies worldwide.
Trump’s
transition team early this month demanded all ambassadors appointed by former
President Barack Obama resign by last Friday before the inauguration.
“It is common
practice for political appointees to be asked to resign at the end of an
administration. Ambassador Godec is a career member of the Senior Foreign
Service and is not a political appointee,” a spokesperson at the embassy said.
“As an
ambassador, he serves at the pleasure of the President and will continue to do
so until otherwise instructed.”
International
media reported that the US Ambassador to New Zealand Mark Gilbert and several
diplomats obeyed the instruction and resigned before Trump’s inauguration.
US State
Department spokesman John Kirby had said the appointees were to submit their
resignations on December 7 to take effect on January 20.
He also said
the transition team did not ask any career diplomat to resign.
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