Surprising reasons for Uhuru’s numerous foreign trips

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s trips are going out of hand. In less than two weeks, the head of state has travelled four times! When does the president have time to sit down and work in order to deliver on the Jubilee Government manifesto?

The president has actually exceeded the number of trips former president Mwai Kibaki had in the entire 10-year reign. This habit is particularly extravagant and immaterial given that there are minor socio-economic gains that come with the overrated foreign trips.

The country has taken a nose dive in terms of accountability, morality and strength of the Kenyan Shilling against the dollar. Perhaps what the country has achieved so far from these trips is the top-three status in the world in massive corruption.

The president should not appear to be globe-trotting when there are more pressing issues of graft and insecurity in the country to be dealt with. The citizenry needs the president to listen to their challenges and device strategies to solve them.

The country has lost touch with the international community as a result of corruption being rampant. The president should therefore embark on a mission to redeem this state given the weight of the matter or else, this might cause multinationals, Non-Governmental Organisations and philanthropists to hesitate in providing aid and investment.

Several problems also come up with the absentee president and he should ensure that he is always in the country to address real issues rather than chasing shadows abroad.

His absence gives room to grapevine and misconceptions. For instance, that he is scared of facing the current problems in Kenya and forging concrete workable and sustainable solutions to them. Some people also speculate that the president is participating in the widespread looting of public coffers by travelling abroad as much as he can.