{"id":225099,"date":"2026-02-26T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-national-assembly-approves-meja-as-psc-chair-amid-debate-over-eligibility\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:15:08","slug":"kenya-national-assembly-approves-meja-as-psc-chair-amid-debate-over-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-national-assembly-approves-meja-as-psc-chair-amid-debate-over-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: National Assembly Approves Meja As PSC Chair Amid Debate Over Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The National Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the appointment of Francis Meja as the Chairperson of the Public Service Commission (PSC), in a vote presided over by Speaker Moses Wetangula.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The approval follows the recommendation of National Assembly Committee on Labour which vetted the nominee ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;Pursuant to the provisions of Article 233(2) of the Constitution and Sections 3 and 8 of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act (Cap. 7F), this House&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The National Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the appointment of Francis Meja as the Chairperson of the Public Service Commission (PSC), in a vote presided over by Speaker Moses Wetangula. The approval follows the recommendation of National Assembly Committee on Labour which vetted the nominee ahead of the vote. &#8220;Pursuant to the provisions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8326,7269,6412,9086,21355,4688,430,53762,6687,257,15941,254],"class_list":["post-225099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-assembly","tag-chair","tag-debate","tag-eligibility","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-meja","tag-national","tag-news","tag-psc","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}