Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed has said that the vote loss at the African Union Commission was a good lesson for Kenya.
Saying that she would return to continue with her job at the helm of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amina said that Kenya would have to probe allegations that the East African Community abandoned Kenya during the vote.
Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat won the seat during the seventh round of voting on Monday afternoon.
Amina who spoke in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, expressed concern that African countries are divided along language lines with the AU vote pitting French speaking (Francophone) countries against the English speaking (Anglophones) ones.
The government has allegedly spent an estimated Sh1 billion in a shuttle diplomacy affair popularising Amina’s candidacy across Africa.
The actual figure has however not been given by the government but many Kenyans online have criticised the whole process saying the government has misplaced and selfish priorities.