President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday hit the headlines when various media publications documented his 31 foreign trips in 21 months.
Uhuru left the country on October 21, heading to Japan after Mashujaa Day celebrations in Mombasa. He is currently in Saudi Arabia.
He will proceed to Botswana for the official swearing-in of President-elect Eric Mokgweetsi Masisi.
In Japan, Uhuru witnessed the enthronement of the new emperor, which was the climax of a long and detailed succession process that started on May 1.
He later left for Sochi, Russia, where he attended the inaugural Russia-Africa Summit.
The President’s trips come amid call for austerity measures as the country grapples with the debt burden.
It is this burden that has forced Bungoma woman Christine Wamalwa to send a special plea to the head of state.
Mrs Wamalwa urges the president to sit down and look into Kenya’s overwhelming debt burden, cancer menace, unemployment among other issues affecting Kenya.
She says Uhuru’s foreign trips won’t benefit the country in any way, urging the president to set up cancer centres to help battle the cancer menace in the country.
However, State House has defended President Kenyatta’s foreign trips, saying they will benefit the nation.
Nzioka Waita, the Chief of staff in the office of the President, took to Twitter on Wednesday to say it is Uhuru’s job to position Kenya on the world stage.
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