Are President Kenyatta's visits abroad a "savior" to Kenya's economy?

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s trips abroad have received increasing criticisms from the common mwanachi, often accusing him of spending too much on luxurious touristic visitations to foreign countries.

We have read many a times on papers and social media that H.E. Kenyatta has traveled abroad more times so far than his predecessor’s two terms in office. If the cost of these trips, many argue, is aggregated, and put into good use, Kenya could address the problem of poor infrastructure, education, insecurity, agriculture, and health. This is not helped by the fact that our neighbors, Tanzania, are celebrating their “savior” President, H.E. Maghufuli who has invested a lot of his time in implementing austerity measures to cut to size the ballooning recurrent expenditure.