Deputy president William Ruto’s daughter Charlene Ruto has decided to face off with trolls who forced her brother Nick Ruto to deactivate his Facebook account.
Nick, the eldest son of DP Ruto, deactivated his Facebook account after he made a scathing attack on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jamhuri Day speech.
Nick criticized president Kenyatta’s remarks for saying that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) was a dream that had been deferred.
The advocate of the high court called out the president for using the lines ‘Dream Deferred’ from Harlem, a poem by Langston Hughes that talks about the injustices black people faced in America.
Nick termed president Kenyatta’s remarks as a distortion of history.
“It’s a distortion of history for President Muigai to call BBI ‘a dream deferred’. The poem is set in the early 20th century in the US, where the promise of the American Dream was clearly not accessible to blacks who had been enslaved less than 50 years earlier. It was not about the dreams of autocrats which are not accomplished due to the resistance of the people, which is the case of BBI,” he explained.
He blamed the media for President Kenyatta for letting the president get away with the distortion of history by failing to read and take care of history.
“But this is the trick that Anglo-American imperialism plays on our minds. It parasites the words of the oppressed and calls on us to take their words literally and ignore the power difference and the context. And our elite get away with it because the media do not read or care for history, and because GoK bureaucrats and the pirate sector demonize the study of the arts,” Nick stated.
He concluded his statement by using the popular ‘Sipangwingwi’ phrase which DP Ruto has recently been using in his campaigns.
The sentiments made Nick a subject of discussion with Kenyans demanding that he must respect the president thus making him to deactivate the account.
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Nick ultimately decided to deactivate his Facebook account after the heat from critics became to much for him to bear.
Nick’s kid sister Charlene has since taken to her Facebook page to plead with netizens to stop bullying her brother.
According to her, the post shared by her brother was not that serious to earn him the attacks he has been getting.
“It’s never that serious. Why bully the other?” Charlene posed.
