Gado’s Caricature that caused Furore in Parliament

The National Assembly was Wednesday ‘brought to life’ thanks to an editorial cartoon carried in the Daily Nation. A section of female MPs took offence with Gado’s caricature that showed masseuses performing massage on the Deputy President aboard his ‘hustler’s jet’.

The female MPs led by Cecily Mbarire demanded an apology from NMG arguing, “We did not come to Parliament to massage anybody. That media house should apologize to women MPs. Milly Odhiambo was rather sidesplitting in her comment about the cartoon saying, “if women MPs massaged Ruto, then I demand that the Nation do another cartoon of male MPs massaging me for equality purposes”.

This is not the first time that Gado’s work has come under attack as just two weeks ago, Tanzanians were up in arms over a similar cartoon that hit out at the country’s Parliament.