Lost opportunities for Kenya as Obama reign enters homestretch

President Uhuru Kenyatta (centre) with US' Barrack Obama and First Lady Michelle.

President Obama’s second and final term comes to a close in January 2017, meaning the window of opportunity for both USA companies and Kenya firms to form gainful partnerships and do business, is fast closing.

While the Chinese have been gobbling all the big ticket infrastructure projects, including the eight-lane Nairobi-Thika superhighway, construction of a new terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), it is their entry into the Sh2 trillion Lamu Port, South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapset) corridor, which must have caught the attention of the West.