President William Ruto on Thursday announced that former United States of America (USA) President Barrack Obama will visit Kenya in 2025.
Speaking during the launch of the Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association's strategic plan, the Head of State revealed that Obama's visit was agreed upon following his request during his state visit to the USA.
He said Obama will help the government set up a leadership school at the University of Nairobi.
Further, he said that they agreed to establish a leadership school in Nairobi similar to the Kennedy School of Leadership at Harvard.
“I requested him to assist us set up a school in the fashion of Kennedy School of Leadership in Havard but this time to be a school of leadership in Nairobi University and I asked him, let us call it Barrack Obama School of Leadership in the University of Nairobi and he agreed, and he will come here next year,”
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Additionally, he called upon young leaders to read and learn about leadership so that there can be better leaders in the future.
Obama has visited Kenya several times the most recent being in 2018 after leaving the White House.