President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses Kenyans living in New York at a reception held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on September 26, 2014. PHOTO | PSCU 
NEW YORK
President Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to Kenyans in the diaspora to help the country develop by investing in various sectors.
He announced that the government is planning to float a financial instrument on the New York Stock Exchange that would serve as a vehicle for expatriates to invest in Kenya.
“We hope you will take this up. “Help us put Kenya together,” he told an audience of several hundred Kenyans gathered in a ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan.
He said Kenyans living abroad should be the country's goodwill ambassadors.
He said some negative comments on social media were disturbing.
“We can't sit back and moan, we can't sit back and complain.
“We want to have a Kenya that is not one of who you know, but of what you deliver. People will no longer depend on an individual but on institutions,” he said.
The President was accompanied First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed, Kenya’s Ambassador to UN Macharia Kamau and Washington Embassy Charge d'Affaires Jean Kamau.