President William Ruto on Wednesday received a standing ovation while delivering his speech at the Pan-African Parliament Summit.
The African leaders rose to acknowledge his point and nodded in unison amidst claps and screams as he argued his case before the summit.
The President was ranting over the mistreatment of African heads of state when attending to invites by European nations.
Ruto said that African heads of state are most of the time not given a platform to explain their issues in-depth.
"We want to be effective, not just taking pictures, having dinner and then we go home. Good people, we have food in our countries," Ruto said.
He added that the leaders are only allocated one and a half minutes to contribute which shouldn't be the case.
"While we are invited to those summits, we are given limited time, then aligned, all over 50 of us, for photos, and unfortunately that's the only thing we go back home with," he said.
The President added that in most instances, there is no time to engage
"When others want to engage with us, they don't want to deal with a tray card, what kind of outcome do you expect where 50 heads of state are sitting, with limited time to speak, what kind of engagement will one get?" Ruto posed the question.
The President had in April, laid out some of the challenges African presidents go through during foreign trips abroad.
Ruto expressed his displeasure about the treatment of African Heads saying they are sometimes mistreated.
“We have these meetings, Africa-US, Africa-Europe, Africa-Turkey, now we are waiting for Africa-Russia and Africa-Japan. We have decided that it is not intelligent for 54 of us to go and sit before one gentleman from another place... Sometimes we are mistreated, we are loaded into busses like school children and it is not right," he said.
