President Uhuru Kenyatta has chided the United Nations over its huge spending on salaries and luxurious vehicles in Africa.
Uhuru who spoke on Monday during the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) called on the UN to partner with African nations and involve governments in discovering solutions to the continent's problems.
“The UN devotes billions of dollars on missions in Africa, but what influence do you have, you should come and ask us, how do we find solutions?” Uhuru said.
The president challenged the UN to engage in events that will help most of African Nations instead of wasting so much money on paying staff huge salaries.
“Involvement should be more than just paying enormous salaries and purchasing big cars for your staff here, things that do not modify anything,” further challenged Kenyatta.
The President’s remarks, however, seemed tongue-in-cheek to the situation in the country due to his many foreign trips and high outlay by his government.
The president has even been painted an adventurous president having made over seventy foreign trips in his first term likened to his antecedent Mwai Kibaki's 33 in ten years.
A report by the controller of budget says Kenyatta’s recurrent trips abroad cost taxpayers more than one billion shillings in the financial year that ended in June year 2015.
In June 2016, the presidential department received an additional Sh212 million to cater for his entertainment and local travels.