The United States president, Barrack
Obama has arrived Kenya, his ancestral home. The president who is visiting for
the first time as a serving US arrived in a bullet proof glassed-limousine
popularly called ‘The Beast’.
Obama, who is on a 2-day visit to have
a chat with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and other top officials, arrived
the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, with the limousine ready to
pick him up. According to BBC, the US president would delivering a “blunt
message” to African leaders concerning gay rights and discrimination. He is
also billed to visit Ethiopia just to show United States’ commitment to
fighting terror in East Africa. AFP however revealed that the limousine that
conveyed him from the airport, was flown in from the US. It has eight-inch
thick steel plates, five-inch thick bulletproof glass, Kevlar-reinforced tyres,
and a presidential blood bank in the boot. See the photos of the beast below as
it conveyed the president off the airport:
In a related development, there have
been insinuations claiming that the government of the United States helped Boko
Haram insurgency spread in Nigeria , one of the things President Buhari’s
recent visit to the States got clarified.
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