Speculation about the whereabouts of Uhuru Kenyatta highlights the divisions in his ruling Jubilee Party as he works on his political heritage in his final term as President.

President Uhuru Kenyatta is determined not to follow predecessors Mwai Kibaki and Daniel Arap Moi in becoming lame duck presidents in their second terms.

He’s working on his four-part programme  of ensuring food security, affordable housing, health care and boosting manufacturing.

But his Jubilee Party remain split after his rapprochement more than a year ago with Opposition leader Raila Odinga.

The party –  Kenya’s electorate generally – are disappointed at his inability to keep his promise to eradicate corruption.

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The head of that mission Marietje Schaake says the Nairobi government was not prepared to receive them to read the report there.

The EU observer mission found that state resources were used, both in August and in the court-mandated election repeat in October, by the victorious Jubilee Party to fight the poll won by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Mission head Marietje Schaake read the report in Brussels because Kenyan authorities had stymied their plans to visit that country for the process.

Kenya says manner of presenting the report is condescending, unprocedural and disdainful and its  violates a bilateral agreement they had with the EU authorities.

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