President William Ruto on Thursday, June 13 revealed that former U.S President Barrack Obama will help his government set up a leadership school at the University of Nairobi.

Speaking during the launch of a strategic plan of the Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association (YKPA), President Ruto said that Obama will be visiting Kenya next year for that same purpose.

“When I was in America, I asked for an appointment with President Barrack Obama and I asked him for one thing. I am an alumnus of UoN and I told him that his father was also an alumnus of UoN.

“I requested him to assist us set up a school in the fashion of Kennedy School of Leadership in Havard, but this time, to be a school of leadership in UoN. I asked him, ‘let us call it the Barrack Obama Leadership School’. Barrack Obama agreed and he will come here next year,” Ruto said.

According to Ruto, Obama even pledged to mobilise support from his allies and friends for the same project, with the former insisting that the institution will play a big role in moulding future leaders.

“He has undertaken that he is going to mobilise support for a sustainable school of leadership because leadership is serious and we want you guys to be better than us so that we can have better leaders tomorrow.”

In order to assist them enact better laws, he also urged young MPs to have a deeper comprehension of many topics.

The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University was established in 1936, a time when the United States was recovering from the Great Depression, and the government was grappling with historic domestic and international challenges.

Havard website says the school was established after stakeholders saw the need for improved, professionalized public service. Harvard alumnus Lucius N. Littauer funded the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard with an unprecedented $2 million gift.