Security was high in and outside Sagana State Lodge on Friday as President Uhuru Kenyatta held a meeting with Mt Kenya leaders.
The meeting was attended by over 4,000 leaders drawn from the larger Mt Kenya region. Others came from Nakuru, Lamu, Eldoret, Kajiado and Nairobi.
However, guests were barred from entering the meeting venue with their mobile phones, wrist watches, wedding rings, earrings, bangles and goggles.
This is to ensure no proceedings of the meeting, whose agenda remained a highly guarded secret, are recorded.
Further National government administrators such as regional and county commissioners, sub-county commissioners and chiefs were not present in the meeting where journalists were denied access.
Despite indications that Cabinet Secretaries from Mt Kenya region were supposed to attend, none of them was seen in the venue.
This is the first time President Uhuru Kenyatta is meeting Mt Kenya leaders amid bitter succession politics, which have seen the leadership split into two groups.
The head of state denied promising opposition leader Raila Odinga 2022 support and gave indication he is open to Prime Minister position.
He pleaded with Central leaders not to abandon the government agenda through pressure to endorse candidates and early political campaigns
