Barack Obama is hopeful

U.S Vice President, Joe Biden, has reiterated the need for Kenya to implement constitutional and other reforms.

In his speech Wednesday at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi on the second day of his visit to Kenya, Biden reiterated President Barack Obama's support for Kenya's constitutional review process, saying a new constitutional dispensation was a key requirement to foreign investment in the country.

"As you prepare to write a new history for your nation, resist those who try and divide you based on ethnicity, or religion, or region and above all, fear," He said.

He said there were unprecedented foreign investment opportunities in this country that can only be explored if tangible reforms are carried out.

"We are hopeful, Barack Obama is hopeful, I am hopeful that you will carry out these reforms to allow money to flow."

In this regard, the US second in command challenged Kenyans to rise to the occasion in implementing the broader Agenda Four of the National Accord for the benefit of the current generation and posterity.

Biden urged Kenyans to ignore politicians whose agenda is to divide the nation along tribal lines for selfish gain, emphasizing that the time has come for the country to actualize the spirit and dreams envisaged at independence.

"Fear is a tool as old as mankind and it has been used with great effect in this country in the past. For too long opportunistic politicians have created an all or nothing system."