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Police check vehicles at a security check point at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi today ahead of US President Barack Obama arrival – Daily Nation

Security at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has been beefed up, hours before US President Barack Obama arrives for his three-day visit.

The main entrance is marked with gun-wielding security officers who are not leaving anything to chance as they scan and screen incoming vehicles and passengers.

Interestingly, just besides this gate, is a conspicuous blue truck being piled up with ‘harvested’ chunks of grass.

A group of about 10 workers can be seen picking the slices of grass into the truck.

GREEN CITY

The chunks look like tiny green door mats and below the truck is a patchwork of the fresh grass.

This is perhaps an indication of the last-minute efforts to green the city in the wake of several sign posts that the Nairobi City County government has erected warning the public to “Keep off the grass”.

The sign posts on Monday touched off social media frenzy and tongue-in-cheek jokes about ‘Kidero grass’.

Inside the airport, uniformed police offers are on guard, with several police vehicles parked at entry and exit points.

Despite trying to blend in, plain-clothed security officers stick out conspicuously with their dark eye-glasses and subtle security gadgets in their ears.

TOUCH DOWN

Up above, Kenyan and US flags sway to the July cold as the time ticks before President Obama touches down for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

This visit will mark his first presidential visit to his late father’s homeland.

The otherwise busy Mombasa Road is deserted with little human and vehicle activity.

However, along Uhuru Highway, next to Nakumatt Mega, women are seen painting the metal fences along the road as their counterparts water vegetation in the pavements of Uhuru Highway. – Daily Nation