The late Barack Obama Senior must be turning in his grave at the sight of bulldozers and excavators ripping apart the Bomas of Kenya.

Obama Snr, according to archives, was among the brains behind the centre’s established in 1971 as a special repository where Kenya’s diverse cultural heritage would be preserved and showcased.

Now, 54 years later, that dream is being dismantled. The proposed Bomas International Convention Complex (BICC) threatens to erase Kenya’s cultural heritage forever, replacing it with a modern structure that risks overshadowing the site’s historical significance as envisioned by the father of the 44th US President, Barack Obama.