President Uhuru Kenyatta has acknowleged British Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Kenya in 30 years.
While addressing the press in a joint presser with the UK Prime Minister Mrs May, President Kenyatta said that no British prime minister has visited the east African country for 30 years.
President Uhuru Kenyatta further told Prime Minister May that he was he was pleased she had “found time” to visit Kenya, he went on to remember Boris Johnson’s surname at the culmination of a three-day trip aimed at boosting Britain’s trade and diplomatic presence in the country.
The last British prime minister to visit Kenya was the late Margaret Thatcher in 1988. Since then, despite historic links between the two nations, the east African country has increasingly turned to China and the US for support and investment.
Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades. She died in London on Monday, 34 years after she became Britain’s first female Prime Minister and 23 years after she was driven from office, at the age of 87.
However being a historic day and time for Kenya, Kenyans have gone ahead to remember Margaret Thatcher’s visit to Kenya in 1988 during former president Moi’s regim.
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UK PM Theresa May, first British PM to visit Kenya since Margaret Thatcher in 1988, accorded a 19-gun salute by the Kenya Defence Forces at State House. #KenyaBritainRelations pic.twitter.com/FeVkU8fjhB
— Kenyans.co.ke (@Kenyans) August 30, 2018
#TBT Former President Moi with then British PM Margaret Thatcher when she visited Kenya in 1988 #KenyaBritainRelations pic.twitter.com/HCBnEHk7xb
— Kenyans.co.ke (@Kenyans) August 30, 2018
The late UK PM Margaret Thatcher was the first sitting PM to visit Kenya in 1988 and TODAY Current UK PM @theresa_may is here to meet President @UKenyatta @StateHouseKenya #KenyaBritainRelations Kenya is an economic/investment hub to ignore @alykhansatchu @jmosoro
— NYAMAO GEOFFREY (@gonyamao) August 30, 2018
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It’s exactly 30 Years since a Sitting UK Prime Minister visited Kenya;The late UK PM Margaret Thatcher was the first to visit Kenya in 1988 during President Moi’s regimeTODAY
Current UK PM Theresa May is here to meet President Kenyatta at State House#KenyaBritainRelations pic.twitter.com/qSkE0tvQw4— Hezbon Mureithi® (@HezMureithi) August 30, 2018
@theresa_may visits 30 years after Margaret Thatcher. 2 PMs, both considered powerful women of the times in the UK, met our Presidents 4 and 2 respectively. President @UKenyatta, has also met presidents 44 and 45 of the US a number of times. Very good relations welcome in Kenya
— Armstrong Otiende (@armyyaone) August 30, 2018