President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that he wants Kenya to move towards vaccine production because it has suffered as a result of vaccine nationalism, a claim that rich countries are buying up vaccine supplies.
Less than 2% of Africa’s population has been fully vaccinated.
Mr Kenyatta has been attending a three-day global education summit which he co-hosted with the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta also criticized the global failure of equitable vaccine distribution saying, “We encountered a nationalism and prejudice that we had never seen before, and saw important vaccines being hoarded by other countries.”
“We have seen that the global system isn’t actually working equitably and fairly for all of us,” he added, saying that this “drove us to a challenge to overcome.”
He said that in order to overcome its current challenges, the world needs more “democratized systems” and “more inclusive decision-making processes.”
“We need to find a greater global governance in order to be able to ensure that we live in a fair, equitable world where we all take responsibility,” he added.
