US President Barrack Obama’s trip to Kenya in July will cost US
taxpayers a staggering Sh 5.7 billion, almost an equivalent to the
Kenyan Government’s annual allocation to Nakuru County.
According to a US Professor, Obama should
call off the trip because it is “too costly for nothing”
Professor Robert Rotberg opines that
America will be compelled to fork out billions of money to mount a massive security
operation because of the Al Shabaab threat in Kenya.
“Guarding President Obama in today’s
Kenya will cost approximately $60 million,” Rotberg said.
When the US President travels, the
White House travels with him, from cars he rides in to the water he drinks, to the
gasoline he uses and the food he eats.
When Obama lands in Nairobi, he will
do so on Air Force One plus a massive entourage and a motorcade of armour
plated vehicles.
This includes the President’s bullet
proof Limo, known as simply “The Beast”, a military ambulance
and communication vans packed with state of art high tech machinery.
He will also be accompanied by over
250 Secret Service agents, dozens of advisers and a team of sniffer dogs in
addition to a dozen of White House cooks.
