A strange thing happened at Kisumu airport on Saturday when President Uhuru Kenyatta broke protocol and was driven without security to an undisclosed location in the company of Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga.
President Kenyatta was just about to depart Kisumu and was seeing off dignitaries.
Raila then took him on an unplanned tour of the Kisumu Port where a dredger will clean up the lake.
Uhuru and Raila were driven away from the Kisumu International Airport in two unmarked cars.
The President proceeded with the tour without his bodyguards. His flight to Nairobi was delayed for about four hours.
Kisumu deputy governor Mathews Owili yesterday said that the activities at the port followed a meeting Nyanza leaders had with Uhuru during last year’s launch of the universal health coverage project.
He said the President, while at the port, told leaders that he was keen on reviving the lake region’s economy. The government, through the Kenya Ports Authority, has embarked on revive the facility.