Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has hit out at former US President Barack Obama.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Kuria criticised Obama, noting that he did nothing for Kenya or Africa as a whole during his two terms as president.
"Lakini Africans especially Kenyans are a weird lot. Barack Obama was President of the United States for 8 years. The most powerful person on earth, with unfettered access to the awesome American economy and the nuclear codes. He did practically NOTHING for Kogelo, Kenya or Africa. Nothing! Zero! Today as a Eunuch former President he visits Kenya, we close all the roads for him. He then proceeds to Kogelo, body-searches host Governor Cornel Rasanga and reduces my good friend and Lupita Nyongo's daddy into a spectator. The skinny kid with a funny name then delivers a 7-minute hollow speech with a curtain raiser from his sister Auma who sets the stage by giving a scathing and condescending indictment of Luo Nyanza leaders," posted Kuria.
"No wonder Baba Raila Odinga skipped the event, rightly so. Meanwhile, the Chicago benefactor goes on to open a US $ 200K obscure centre for God knows what. The guy found Bill Clinton's Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in place. The same was expanded by President George Howard Walker Bush. Obama did nothing, absolutely ZERO to expand AGOA. Today he launches a US $ 2OOK whatever in Kogelo. Nani alituroga?" he added.
Obama was in Kogelo where his father, the late Barack Obama Sr, was born to inaugurate the Sauti Kuu Vocational Centre founded by his half-sister Dr Auma Obama.
There was a brief confrontation outside the centre after Siaya Governor Cornel Rasanga refused to be searched at the entrance, arguing that he was the host and thus shouldn't be subjected to public humiliation. However, his Kisumu counterpart Anyang Ngong'o and his deputy Mathews Owili agreed to the security checks.