Ghana and Kenya are scheduled to sign a number of bilateral agreements in the areas of Tourism, Aviation, Commerce, Agriculture, Trade, Education and Communications during a three-day state visit of President John Dramani Mahama to Kenya, at the invitation of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
President Mahama, accompanied by a delegation of ministers, left Accra Thursday morning for Nairobi, where he will be a Special Guest of Honour at Kenya’s 51st Independence anniversary celebrations (or Jamhuri) Day at the Nyayo Stadium on Friday, December 12.
The state visit is expected to rekindle historic Ghana-Kenya relations forged between Ghana’s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding President and father of current President Uhuru Kenyatta, in the period leading up to the independence of both countries.
President Mahama, as Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and President Kenyatta, who is Chair of the East African Community (EAC) will explore how to boost intra-African trade and advance the agenda for full African integration and unity.
On Friday evening, the President will meet and interact with the Ghanaian community in Kenya. He will be hosted to a State Luncheon on Saturday and visit the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta Mausoleum before interacting with staff of the United Nations Offices in Nairobi.
The President concludes his state visit to Kenya on Sunday and flies directly to the Nigerian capital, Abuja, where he will chair the Forty-Sixth Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on Monday, December 15.
The Summit will discuss the security situation in the West-African sub-region, the situation in Burkina Faso and the Election of the Chairman of the Authority for 2015, among other matters.
President Mahama and his delegation are due back in Ghana in the evening of Monday, December 15.
Source: Daily Graphic
