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A bag of goodies and a strong pitch for investments in the country marked President William Ruto's five day tour of the United States, the second trip in his 100 days in office.
Ruto, who for most part of last week attended the US-Africa Summit on 'The Future of Africa's Trade and Investment', used the opportunity to market the country to the US moguls and top global corporate heads a move that signals his government's near complete diplomacy shift from the East to the West.
At the end of his trip that was attend by senior government officials, including the Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, five cabinet secretaries and economic experts, the President managed to win over billions of dollars in direct and indirect investments from the government, and the corporate world including support for his biggest election pledge the Hustler Fund.
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