How Uhuru plotted to retaliate against UK government, Jane Marriott
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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta plotted to retaliate against UK government over red listing according to British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta plotted to retaliate against UK government over red listing according to British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott.
Outgoing United Kingdom High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriott recalled a plot by former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime to retaliate against Britain after Kenya was red-listed during the pandemic.
In an interview with KTN News on Saturday, June 3, Marriott said that England had instructed her to prohibit planes from Kenya from landing in the country due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases.
She sent two requests to the British government in an effort to arbitrate between the two countries. One was that scientists from the UK video called researchers in Kenya to explain the phenomenon and schedule the release for after the Easter break.
Marriott noted that the UK government initially agreed to her plea but placed Kenya on the red list without following through with her requests.
“At first, they agreed but ultimately the UK government did not get me the scientists and made the announcement on a Good Friday,” she stated.
The announcement, according to Marriott, caught her flatfooted as the Kenyan government also had an emergency meeting to deliberate on how to retaliate against Britain.
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“On the following day, the Kenyan government plotted all the nasty things they could do to the UK. At the time, I wondered whether I could do this anymore. I was close to issuing my resignation notice,” she recalled.
Kenya reacted to being put to the red list by claiming that the action was discriminatory, punitive, and endangered security as well as its bilateral relations with the UK.
Kenya retaliated by imposing an expensive 14-day mandatory quarantine at a government facility on anyone arriving at or passing through UK airports.
“The decision by the Government of the United Kingdom to ‘Red List’ Kenya and to stop all travel from Kenya for those residents in Kenya and those transiting through Kenya, to the United Kingdom has been received with regret and disappointment,” Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs then lamented.
Kenya later exempted travellers visiting from Britain from the quarantine lits weeks after England lifted the ban.
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