Vetting panels clears Kihara, Haji for appointment as AG, DPP

Director of Public Prosecution Nominee Noordin Mohamed Haji during the vetting by National Assembly Justice and Legal Affairs Committee at Parliament. [Photo by Boniface Okendo/Standard]

Two vetting committees have approved the nomination of the candidates for Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions.

In separate reports tabled in the National Assembly yesterday, the committees that vetted retired Court of Appeal judge Kihara Kariuki and Noordin Mohammed Haji asked members to give their approval and pave the way for their formal appointment by President Uhuru Kenyatta.