These are some of the hilarious but offensive comments that the world had for the first Kenyan Presidential debate
Kenya’s first and historical Presidential Debate happened on Monday and the entire world got to view it live. After the unfortunate turn of events in late 2007, shortly after the general elections, the world is now closely following every step that Kenya is taking towards this year’s general election, the most important being the Presidential debate and ofcourse, the election progress that is to follow.
News of the Presidential Debate was reported on leading regional and international media outlets, giving readers a platform of airing their views and concerns about the election development.
These are some of the most interesting comments that were posted on-line on leading news sites, as compiled by sources.
Yahoo News
“Are gay rights on the table???”
“Hopefully Obama will win this one.”
“So how can they do that (debate) when we have their village idiot over here”
“Where are the white candidates?”
“What no white people, Kenya is nothing but a bunch of racist”
“Why all of a sudden does Yahoo post Kenya news?? If Obama is an American citizen then why should this even be news??”
“Gosh now were going to get Kenya news force fed to us, Because that’s where King Obama is really from…”
Al Jazeera
“The win by Uhuru is imminent.The West should start leaving if they can not put up with his administration.”
Daily Monitor
“I am looking forward for such debates in our country-Uganda.”
“Debating is civilized but shooting at opposition is criminal. Kenya is always ahead of Uganda it seems these days, but in early Independence days Uganda was ahead.”