US President Barrack Obama’s trip to Kenya in July will cost US taxpayers a staggering Sh 5.7 billion, almost an equivalent to the Kenyan Government’s annual allocation to Nakuru County. According to a US Professor, Obama should call off the trip because it is “too costly for nothing”
“Guarding President Obama in today’s Kenya will cost approximately $60 million,” Rotberg said.
When the US President travels, the White House travels with him, from cars he rides in to the water he drinks, to the gasoline he uses and the food he eats.
This includes the President’s bullet proof Limo, known as simply “The Beast”, a military ambulance and communication vans packed with state of art high tech machinery.
He will also be accompanied by over 250 Secret Service agents, dozens of advisers and a team of sniffer dogs in addition to a dozen of White House cooks.
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