
President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta during the joint press conference today said the issue of gay is a non issue for Kenya's but President Barack Obama still went ahead to say during the press conference said the following in a moment of open disagreement with the Kenyan president that ''I have been consistent all across Africa on this.When you start treating people differently,because they're different,that's the path whereby freedoms begin to erode.And bad things happen.When a government gets in the habit of treating people differently those habits can spread.As an African American in the United States,i am painfully aware of what happens when people are treated differently under the law.I am unequivocal on this.For a law abiding citizen who is going about their business,and working at a job and obeying the traffic signs and not harming anybody,the idea they will be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong,full stop''.President of Kenya in his response said ''There are some things that we must admit we don't share,it's very difficult for us to impose on people that which they themselves do not accept.This is why i say for Kenyans today the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue''.President Obama honours victims of 1998 Embassy bombing after the press conference.He said is wonderful to be back in Kenya as he took a moment to reflect on recent violence in Kenya and specifically the hundreds of victims of the 7 of August 1998 U.S Embassy bombings in Nairobi.Obama laid a wreath to the victims at the site of the attack in central Nairobi,which is now a memorial park.The new embassy is now further away from the centre now.One more photo below.
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