BIDEN VISITS PARK

Tight security and long hours of wait marked US Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to the August 7 Memorial Park, Nairobi.

The park was Tuesday cordoned off hours before Biden arrived.

Only the whirr sounds of the fountain and the faint hooting of vehicles in the adjacent highway rent the air as Biden laid a wreath at the memorial site at 3.10pm.

The US Vice-President also signed the visitor’s book and talked to three non–embassy bomb survivors.

In hardly 15 minutes, the VP rounded up his visit at the park with a slight chat with ten embassy staff survivors.

He was accompanied by his wife Jill and Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetang’ula.

Unlike previous US officials who visited the park, Biden did not address journalists.

Douglas Ogoye, 40, who lost his sight after the bomb blast, said in their conversation, the VP accepted their request to be peace envoys.