Obama Speaks Out After A US Professor Advised Him Not To Visit Kenya. Here Is What He Said

Obama’s announcement that he will be visiting Kenya come July has elicited mixed reactions around the globe with many wagging their tongues about the possibility of a sitting head of American government making a grand entry into Kenya for the first time in close to a century.

Obama’s promise to visit Kenya has been received so well by Kenyans who believe that the US is in appreciation of the Kenyan system of government while some Americans believe the president of the free world should not visit a country threatened by terrorists, thanks to the recent Garissa attack that left 148 people dead.

One of the people who have advised Obama to snub Kenya yet again is Professor Robert I. Rotberg who penned an opinion in an American blog Politico.Com explaining that Kenya is not a safe haven for a person of Obama’s caliber to visit.

Rotberg argues that it will cost America colossal sums of money to guarantee Obama enough security and that visiting a country that is ethnically divided considering his father comes from the Luo community that is in constant wrangles with the Kikuyu community will farther fuel ethnic schism.

Rotberg has since received a rejoinder from blogger Dikembe Disembe.

And now Obama has spoken out yet again about his visit to Kenya.

Speaking to a group of entrepreneurs drawn from across the world at the White House on Monday, President Obama said promoting transformative entrepreneurship among women and youth the world over, is a critical part of his administration’s diplomatic agenda and the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit to be held in Nairobi in July, and which he is expected to attend, is in line with that policy.

“There are brilliant young people and hard working women and innovative thinkers in communities all around the world but they haven’t been given the chance yet and together we can make sure that anybody who’s got the creativity and drive to work hard no matter where they come from, what they look like, what their background is, they get a fair short at pursuing their dreams,” Obama added.

His statement is a clear indication that his visit to Kenya is a reality despite opposition from a section of ignorant individuals who view Kenya as no safe a place.