The Kenyan government yesterday reacted with fury and shock to a damning US State Department diplomatic report released by Wikileaks, which described the country as a “swamp of flourishing corruption” run by bent officials who were banned from entering America.
A government spokesman, Alfred Mutua, branded the unflattering US characterisation of Kenya as “malicious”. He said that the top American diplomatic official responsible for Africa had called the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday to apologise for the content of the memos.
He said that if the reports were true the memos were “malicious and a total misrepresentation” of Kenya and its leaders. “We are surprised and shocked by these revelations,” Mr Mutua said.
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