When the media announced that President Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to visit Tanzania, many Kenyans expressed their disapproval and complained that the president is making so many unnecessary foreign trips.
Last year, Cord leader Raila Odinga asked the president to account for his numerous foreign trips.
Kenyans indeed have a right to ask the president to account for his foreign trips because it is them that finance these trips. Foreign trips are not bad for our country.
We should let the president to travel and bring 'goodies' for us. Through foreign trips, a country builds relationships with other countries. This not only consolidates diplomatic relations but it also strengthen bilateral cooperation.
Foreign trips brings investments in our country thus helping our country to grow and develop its economy. It is also through these trips that the president get to sign deals and treaties with other heads of states.
He represents us by participating in international and statutory meetings and summits.