Nairobi, Kenya ? Sen. Barack Obama met Kenya’s president and survivors of a terrorist bombing and was greeted by cheering crowds wherever he went Friday on his first visit to his father’s native land since he was elected.

As Obama rushed from meeting to meeting, well-wishers shouted out his name and stretched to shake his hand as police armed with batons kept watch.

Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, said he urged the president to fight government corruption and street crime, warning that the two problems discourage foreign investment and growth of the Kenyan economy.