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Was PM’s gesture of surrendering gifts politically motivated?

Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s move to surrender the expensive-looking handmade and hand painted decorative gifts from Turkey to the State was a demonstration of his will to adhere to the new Constitution.

The law in Article 76(1) of the Constitution reads; “A gift or donation to a State Officer on a public or official occasion is a gift or donation to the Republic and shall be delivered to the State unless exempted under an act of Parliament.”

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