President Obama DIDN’T Carry Along The Gifts Uhuru Gave Him At State House When He Left Kenya. This Is Why(Photos)

The world’s most powerful man jetted into the country for a two day official visit. As tradition calls, the host President usually gives his visiting counterpart a gift or two to take back home. Uhuru gave Potus 3 which he didn’t take.

It was earlier reported that President Obama had carried along the gifts Baba Ngina gave him while he visited State House:

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Actually Obama didn’t board Air Force One with the gifts Unye gave him. It NEVER happened!

But why would Obama, a Kenyan-American President decline to take the precious gifts given to him from his ancestral land?

Even before you start to think Potus was looking down on us, he was only following protocol, you know Americans being paranoid with matters security.

Well, the title of Nobility Clause in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, restricts members of the government from receiving gifts from foreign states without the consent of the United States Congress.

This came during the Cold War era where the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in all manner of dirty games. Gifts were implanted with bugs to listen to secret conversations between either sides.

To curb leakages, the US prohibited members of its government from receiving gifts from foreign governments.

President Kenyatta had given Obama two portraits done by pencil artist Collins Okello and a sculpture of an elephant which were said to be worth Kes 305, 272 ($3000).

The Director of Digital Communication in the Office of the President, Dennis Itumbi, told Taifa Leo the process of channeling the gifts through the respective department had already started.