Kenya must milk Obama visit for all its worth

It has been interesting to watch Kenyans’ reactions to the visit later this month by US President Barack Obama. Jubilee, which has a surprising instinctive suspicion of the man from K’ogelo, has been trumpeting his visit as an achievement of the Uhuru administration while CORD, which has always associated itself with Obama’s government, has been loudly silent.

There are even allegations by some Jubilants, not substantiated though, that CORD has written to the POTUS listing issues that Obama must raise with the Kenyan leadership during his visit. This is classic Kenya; each side must harvest events of this nature in its own way for political mileage.