Monday 7 December 2015

UHURU'S TRIPS BENEFITS


Uhuru has entered Guinness book of records as one pf the most travelled head of states after having 43 foreign states within 2 years in office 33 more than his predecessor Retired President Mwai Kibaki.This does not auger well with kenyans as they raised several questions and memes to critisize Uhuru's Tours.
This led to the Digital controller Denis Itumbi and State House spokes man Manoah Esipisu chipping in to defend his tours siting the fruits involved.They defended the President citing that UHURUTO took power at a time kenyans relationship with outside countries had deteroriated and so the president was binding and rebuilding the relationship.
Denis Itumbi took to facebook explaining all the fruits involved in each travel, This are some of the fruits he stated,
In the United Arab Emirates
  The President successfully pushed for the employment of 100,000 young Kenyans and negotiations are going on to establish the sectors, skills and contracts that will be made available to the youth.

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed says President Kenyatta has held many bilateral meetings with leaders of many countries and international organisations, adding that the gains have been many.

“The larger detail of the negotiations is overwhelming. The encouraging thing is that the President sat in all those meetings and pushed the national agenda and interests with a lot of passion,” Ms Mohammed said.

The visits are a clear indication that the President, who has travelled widely, flew back with many deals that have a direct impact on the economy and the people of Kenya.
 Kampala and Kigali
 President Kenyatta has visited Kampala and Kigali many times for the Heads of State of the Northern Corridor Summit. In the meetings, the leaders have given priority to infrastructure and expansion of the economy. The projects include the Standard Gauge Railway, ICT infrastructure, power transmission and inter-connectivity, immigration, trade, tourism and labour services.
The  President has had very robust diplomatic and peace missions in line with the Jubilee Manifesto. South Sudan, Somalia and the Great Lakes Region and Central Africa Republic have been at the centre of the peace missions. The President has been in talks with leaders of the warring countries in Addis Ababa, Juba and even London. He has also boosted bilateral and trade ties with more African countries than ever before in the history of independent Kenya. Such countries include Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Algeria, among others. During the visits, agreements on cooperation, trade, energy, peace and security, among others have been signed. As a result, trade between Kenya and the rest of Africa is increasing.
 China
 Many benefits accrued to Kenya. Agreements on the Standard Gauge Railway, economic and technical cooperation co-operation, aviation, security, health and agriculture were signed. Other deals clinched were in cultural cooperation, energy, forestry and ecological conservation, investment promotion and the Nairobi Grid Innovation Project.
 Americas
  President Kenya has been to the United States twice, for theUS-Africa Summit in Washington DC and to the UN General Assembly in New York.At the Summit, the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation committed $250 million (Sh24b) to finance the construction of 310 megawatts wind power project near Lake Turkana, the documents discloses. A Trade Power Africa initiative, announced at the summit will build Africa’s ability to do business.The Kenya delegation also held discussions with Delta Airlines over direct flights from Nairobi to the US.
 Russia
 President Kenyatta held discussions with Government and business leaders after which agreements on tourism, sports and culure, air services were to be signed. The President had flown to Russian on his way to China to watch Kenyan athletes at the World Athletic Championships.
 Turkey
 The Turkish National Police Service undertook to support in-service and basic training for their Kenyan counterparts and also undergraduate and postgraduate studies in security.

He didn't talk of the current Paris and South Africa tour that the president toured recently.Most kenyans critisizes this benefits as they say the benefits comes in terms of heavy loans that may take upto 50 years to pay.










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