President Uhuru Kenyatta intervenes as it emerges films on Westgate and Louis Leakey are still in Kenya’s hand

Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre as al Shabaab gunmen stormed and killed dozens of mall goers in 2013.

NAIROBI: President Uhuru Kenyatta’s office has intervened to save Kenya from losing out lucrative Hollywood film location deals to South Africa after it emerged that the country had almost lost two lucrative film deals to South Africa.

The President dispatched his officer in charge of State Branding and Events Ted Kwaka popularly known as Big Ted to a powerful meeting chaired by Sports, Arts and The Culture CS Dr. Hassan Wario bringing stakeholders with an urgent objective to win back two films yet to be shot in South Africa.