Grace Wangui, a vocal Kenyan resident in Stockholm, has attacked the Kenyan Embassy for failing to invite all Kenyans to a recent meeting with a Kenyan Cabinet minister and members of a Kenyan delegation that had come to Sweden to attend a one week seminar on Water. The delegation included Kenya’s Minister of Water and Irrigation Mr. Mutua Katuku.
Wangui told Kenya Stockholm Blog that there was no need in organizing the meeting at Sheraton Hotel which, she argued was expensive.
“Kenyans normally hire places like Norsborg musikhuset where the delegation could have met Kenyans say on a Sunday afternoon to discuss issues about Kenya”, she said.
She pointed out that it was wrong for the MPs to meet only a handful of Kenyans when there was possibility of meeting everybody.
“I single out the Ambassador Mr. Daniel Kinyanjui for attack because he could have made sure that the delegation met all Kenyans when they were in Sweden”, she said.
“I wonder who the Kenya Embassy is working for or who the Ambassador is representing here”, she said.
When reminded that the meeting was a dinner party and that the Embassy couldn’t afford to finance the event if all Kenyans were invited, Wangui said: “This isn’t Kenya where people are dying of hunger. Here, people have food”.
Wangui said that the Ambassador was in Sweden to protect the interest of Kenyans and to serve the Kenyan community. This, she said, includes informing all Kenyans whenever MPs or other dignitaries come to Sweden. She said that the delegation was not on a private visit and that if they were on a private visit, then they should have paid for their own tickets instead of wasting tax payer’s money.
She said that the fact that the meeting had taken place while some Kenyans had been excluded was a big shame to both the delegation and the Kenyan embassy in Stockholm.
Okoth Osewe
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