OBAMA PRAISES UHURU AS A GREAT LEADER THAT WILL UNITE AFRICA

Last year, President Uhuru Kenyatta, became the first President in the history of Africa to marshal all the 54 nations in Africa with the aim of amending an international statute that favoured his cases at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

With a great smile and charisma and with the assistance of his Deputy, William Ruto, Uhuru traversed all over the African continent and eventually managed to force the amendments to the rules of the Assembly of State Parties which forms the International Criminal Court (ICC).

According to a secret annual journal published by the White House last week, US President Barrack Obama described Uhuru as an “African leader who is loved by all Africans”. He said the African Union (AU)’s support for his case at the ICC is a good indication that Uhuru may onetime become one of the greatest leaders in Africa.

“Europe has Winston Churchill, America has George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Russia has Stalin and Khrushchev and Africa in the next decade will have its pairs of great leaders,” Obama wrote in the journal.

“It is not easy to marshal the whole content to support your course. He is a leader that the world deserves,” Obama added.

He also said that Kenya’s President possesses an extra-ordinary quality of leadership which is hard to get in a dozen of leaders all over the world.

He also said he was moved when he saw South African citizens cheering Uhuru during Mandela’s requiem mass last year.

“He was an ICC indictee and he managed to beat his political rivals. That is a show of commitment and hard work,” Obama said.

OBAMA INVITES UHURU TO WASHINGTON DESPITE "CONSEQUENCE" WARNING

President Uhuru Kenyatta and President Obama shake hands at the Nelson Mandela memorial

Nairobi. 
President Uhuru Kenyatta is among leaders said to be invited to the first US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington.

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Obama will hold the summit in August – with President Kenyatta said to be on the invitation list. The reported inclusion of the Kenyan head of state among 47 African leaders marks a decisive turn for the better in relations between the Obama and Kenyatta administrations.

Mr Obama’s former chief diplomat for Africa had warned in thinly veiled terms a year ago that Mr Kenyatta’s election would have negative “consequences” for ties between the two longstanding allies.

The US president then snubbed Kenya during his three-nation Africa tour in June and July.

President Kenyatta’s indictment by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity was acknowledged by the White House as the chief reason why Mr Obama skipped a visit to his father’s homeland.

EXCLUDED
The list of the heads of State invited explicitly excluded Sudan President Omar Al Bashir and Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe among others.

The invitation is seen as a way of Obama trying to thaw the recent Icy relationship between Nairobi and Washington  

TROUBLE LOOMS AT OLKARIA 1 AS CONTRACTOR WORKERS DOWN TOOLS

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H-YOUNG workers a the Olkaria One power plant went on strike on yesterday over alleged mistreatment by the Management of the Company

The strike which comes less than two months after another similar incident has spiraled into a serious quarrel with area residents and Union officials.

This morning the company sacked two Union officials but as it turned out one of them was from the local community of the Maasai . After His dismissal the man is said to have gathered his clansmen at th site who are now demanding among other things the Removal of the H-Young site manager from office. The men who are armed with crood weapons have threatened to paralyze operations on the site till their grievances are heard.

It remains to be seen how the Company will resolve the stand off as the project is behind schedule aaccording to Cabinet Secretary for Energy Mr, Davis Chirchir who toured the site earlier this month and is set to tour the site again on 24th January.

H-Young is on Sub-Contract From Hyundai Engineering Company which is the Main Contractor of Olkaria I & IV