(PHOTOS) A New Nairobi: Images Of City Ready To Receive US President

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THE Nairobi government has completed the beautification of the city ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit Friday. More than 500 youths had been hired to unclog drainage, clear bushes and cut grass on major roads.

“The team cleaning the city is from the National Youth Service. The county made special arrangements with the national government, which agreed to train them for us.

I can say they are volunteering,” Environment chief officer Leah Oyake told the Star.

Urban Green Landscapers contractors have laid concrete slabs on both sides of the flower beds on Mombasa Road.

“We have constructed undulating contours, grass and flower beds, complete with pebble rocks on the sides from Waiyaki Way to the airport. The same has happened on Lang’ata Road,” a worker told the Star Newspaper in Nairobi.

Numerous billboards welcoming Obama have also been put up. Here are the pictures:

1. The image above shows Villa Rosa Kempinski Nairobi staff on Chiromo Road. Obama is rumoured to stay there.

Billboard welcomes Obama at JKIA.

: Man sells US flags in Nairobi

: A Nairobi city emplyees waters grass on University Way

: The KICC where a pre-GES expo is taking place has received new Kenya and US flags.

: Minibus driver Solomon Murimia calls on clients next to his “matatu” minibus with a painting depicting US Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama and US civil rights activist Martin Luther King on July 22, 2015 in Nairobi. Obama will make his first presidential pilgrimage to his father’s homeland of Kenya today, the cap to a week-long trip to three key African nations. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA