Kenya decides its real problem is PR
When Hillary Clinton scolded Kenya's government for dragging its feet on political reforms, utterly failing to tackle corruption and generally hoping the bitter memories of last year's election crises disappeared like so many billions of dollars in public funds, this is probably not the reaction that the U.S. Secretary of State was hoping for:
Kenya hires top US image firm
The Kenyan government has retained a top Washington public relations
firm to improve its image in the United States at a reported cost of
Sh129 million ($1.7 million) over the next two years.
Officials at CLS & Associates confirm that the Kenyan Government has been added to its list of high-powered clients.
But the lobbyists declined to comment further on the grounds that the campaign on behalf of the Grand Coalition had not yet been fully formulated.
Read the full story at the Daily Nation.
Harkens back to the Moi regime hiring Black Manafort Stone & Kelly back in late '80s after Reagan declared the Cold War "over" and a Bush political appointee as US Ambassador was weighing in to support opening of democratic space. Of course Kibaki was part of the Moi administration at the time.
Posted by: Ken Flottman | August 19, 2009 at 06:02 PM