President Uhuru Kenyatta urges diaspora to help “put Kenya together”
President Uhuru Kenyatta. He has said Kenya will continue easing trade requirements to enable other businesses from African countries to engage with local traders. FILE PHOTO | PSCU
What you need to know:
- He said Kenyans living abroad should be the country's goodwill ambassadors by depicting the country positively.
- He announced that the government is planning to float a financial instrument on the New York Stock Exchange.
NEW YORK
President Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to Kenyans in the diaspora to help the country develop by investing in various sectors.
He announced that the government is planning to float a financial instrument on the New York Stock Exchange that would serve as a vehicle for expatriates to invest in Kenya.
“We hope you will take this up. “Help us put Kenya together,” he told an audience of several hundred Kenyans gathered in a ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan.
He said Kenyans living abroad should be the country's goodwill ambassadors.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret arrive for a reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York on September 26, 2014. PHOTO | PSCU
He said some negative comments on social media were disturbing.
“We can't sit back and moan, we can't sit back and complain.
“We want to have a Kenya that is not one of who you know, but of what you deliver. People will no longer depend on an individual but on institutions,” he said.
The President was accompanied First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed, Kenya’s Ambassador to the UN Macharia Kamau and Kenya's Washington Embassy Charge d'Affaires Jean Kamau.
