This was said in an interview with Richard Quest of CNN on Friday last week, a video that was later released on Monday.

“I’m not interested in a third term,” Mr Kenyatta replied while asked if he has a plan of changing the constitution.

Kenyatta also revealed that his handshake with the now African Union Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa Raila Odinga was meant to bring about development to Kenya.

“We’ve said, ‘Look, we don’t have to always agree on everything. But we can agree on things Kenya, and we can agree that this issue of cyclical elections has to come to an end,'” the President said.​

CNN’s Richard Quest interviews President Uhuru Kenyatta last week on Friday

Among other questions, Kenyatta was also questioned of whether he is bothered by the country’s debt to the Chinese.

Kenyatta revealed why people are only focusing on China as the only lender to Kenya and not other multilateral lenders like World Bank and African Development Bank.

“Why are we focusing ourselves only on one lender?” Mr Kenyatta asked.

“As far as I am concerned, we have a very healthy mix of debt from the multilateral lenders — who are basically the World Bank and the African Development Bank — to bilateral lenders like Japan, China, France, all who are participating and working with us to help us achieve our objectives,”  Kenyatta added.

Kenyatta was also quizzed on China’s intentions of giving loans to African Countries.

“We have an infrastructure gap that we need to fill and we are going to work with our partners across the globe who are willing to partner and to work with us.”

“What would worry me is if the debt that we have incurred has gone into recurrent expenditure, has gone into paying salaries or electricity bills and so on and so forth. But what we have utilised our debt for is to close the infrastructure gap,” he said.

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President Kenyatta(LEFT) will hold Bilateral talks with his counter part president Yoweri Museveni from Uganda.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will this week make a two days state visit to Kenya on Wednesday and Thursday for bilateral talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta.

He will be the first leader to visit Kenya after Uhuru was sworn in for the second and final term in office on November 28 in Kasarani Stadium.

Museveni who attended Uhuru’s inauguration, asked Kenyans to move on and develop the country.

“You can’t eat politics,” he said in Kasarani.

There have also been security issues involving Ugandan forces and Kenyans in Turkana, Migingo and Busia which need the attention of the two Hwads of state

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Kenyans at Kasarani Stadium, Nairobi, to mark the 54th Jamhuri Day.

The 54th Jamhuri Day celebrations at Kasarani Sports Centre was marked by empty seats as the event recorded low turnout yesterday.

The event, presided by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto failed to kick off at the scheduled 10 am as organizers waited for more people to attend.

Unlike other celebrations where the stadium filled to the brim, Jamhuri Day in 2017 lacked the glamour of Kenyans celebrating. The recent inauguration of President Uhuru on November 28 in the same venue tells the difference in attendance of both functions

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As at 11:15am, the function had not begun. President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived at the stadium a few minutes to noon and empty seats could be seen even when the President arrived at the venue ​

The most notable figure, who had made his way to the Kasarani Stadium at the time, was Chief Justice David Maraga.

A top agenda expected to dominate President Kenyatta’s speech is integration among Kenyans, especially during this time, when Kenyans are divided along political and ethnic lines.

The celebrations happed the same day as the recently postponed swearing-in of Raila. Raila had vowed to assume office as the Peoples’ President but NASA informed supporters of the postponement on Sunday, December 10.

The state had invited National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga and other NASA principals and opposition leaders to the Jamhuri Day celebrations.

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Uhuru Meeting Kenyans in Uganda

The key to unlocking the East African Community potential lies with its leaders and the people, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. Addressing the Kenyan diaspora in Kampala, Uganda, President Kenyatta said Kenyans and Ugandans need not look at each other as competitors but rather as complementing each other to compete favourably with the rest of the world. “You are in the frontline of furthering and deepening the partnership that exists between our two countries,” the President told thousands of Kenyans who had turned up at the Hotel to acknowledge his greetings.

The President noted that the two countries enjoyed unique relations necessary for residents to forge business partnerships that create more opportunities and grow the economy. “We cannot separate from one another, our borders are such that communities do not recognize boundaries that were created by the colonialists,” he said.

The President said he is keenly following up the issue of integration as it is the one which will ultimately deliver the region and Africa at large from the yoke of economic strangulation. He noted that the “divide and rule tactics” introduced by the colonialists managed to rule Africa but once the indigenous people realized the importance of their unity it was impossible for the white man to continue ruling them “For a long time as Africans we have been affected by the disease caused by the Europeans of being told of our differences. Not only that you are Kenyan but reminding us of our tribal backgrounds; we forgot that they were reminding us of our tribal differences so as to continue dominating us,” said the President.

The President said after independence the same people came up with tactics of ensuring Africans continue in their ignorance so as to remain divided and continue with civil wars. He noted that it was as a realization of this that Kenyans came up with the most progressive constitution which safeguards the rights of every single individual regardless of their background. He said Kenyans and other East African citizens need to take up similar steps and do away with artificial boundaries which have become more of an obstacle rather than a source of prosperity.

It is only through partnership and integration that Africans will be able to gain prosperity that their citizens truly desire, the President said. “As a people we must recognize that our strength lies in our unity, our strength lies in us being able to work together as one people, our problems can only be resolved by working together,” said President Kenyatta.

The President challenged government bureaucrats to stop being an impediment to regional efforts of integration and instead facilitate wananchi to move freely and do business with one another. “You who are in positions of leadership in government should never look at the narrow aspect of doing things. You should not look at a Ugandan coming to Kenya or a Kenyan going to Uganda as an individual who has come to take jobs for your citizens,” said the President. “You should instead see how you can facilitate our people and the region to become globally competitive. Look at how you can help Ugandan and Kenyan business community to be globally competitive to create jobs for our youth,” he added.

The president said bureaucrats are endangering the stability of the region by putting obstacles to integration as the large EAC youth population can easily be misused for destructive activities.

Others who spoke during the meeting were Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Cabinet Secretary Ambassador. Amina Mohammed, Leader of the Majority in Parliament Aden Duale and Nairobi Senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko.

Earlier President Kenyatta, who is on the second of his three-day state visit to Uganda, toured a pharmaceutical plant which specializes in the production of the latest Anti-retroviral (ARVs) and Anti-malaria (ACTs) medicines. The plant, which is owned by Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited, manufactures 80 million tablets a month and plans are finalized to increase production capacity to 100 million tablets a month.

The establishment of the pharmaceutical is in line with the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan of Action and Millennium Development Goals. It aims at providing affordable, newer and safer medicines for the poor. The company focuses on HIV/AIDS and Malaria as these are the biggest health challenges of the century in Africa. The President was taken on a tour of the plant by the company’s chief pharmacist Sam Opio.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta arriving at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya today travelled to Zambia for a two-day state visit. During this visit he is expected to officiate the opening of the 51st Zambia International Trade Fair. The fair under the theme “Propensity through business reforms and linkages” is running from 1st to 7th July 2015. Last year’s fair had a total of 91 foreign participants from 14 countries, and 453 local companies. 90,055 visitors were recorded and organisers hope to exceed that number this year.

Zambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba said “The visit is a follow-up on the meeting the two heads of state had in Addis Ababa to consolidate relations between the two countries,” he said. “Zambia and Kenya share a lot of platforms together and we want to continue on this path,” he added.

This trip comes after President Uhuru was voted Africa’s President of the year 2014/2015 for his outstanding leadership. The president received this accolade for the prestigious Africa Education and Leadership Awards for his ability to build consensus locally and abroad, efforts to change policies for the better and supervise solutions that address Kenya’s pressing issues.

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