MP Moses Kuria Slams CNN Journalist Richard Quest for Posing 'Embarrassing' Questions to President Uhuru

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has slammed CNN news anchor Richard Quest for posing 'embarrassing' questions to President Kenyatta.

Kuria says that it was wrong for Quest to ask President Uhuru if he will seek to extend his stay in power when his current term expires in 2022.

The MP, who spoke to Citizen TV’s Hussein Mohamed, says such a question should be asked by local reporters and not foreign journalists like Quest.

“I think it’s very unfair for people to ask the president to answer the kind of question he had to answer to Richard Quest, to answer to a foreigner. I wish it was left to Hussein to ask him,” says Kuria.

He argues that Quest, who hosts the Quest Means Business show on CNN, shamed the country by asking Kenyatta if he will run for the presidency in 2022.

Kuria says: “My heart was bleeding that a mzungu journalist who always wants to come here and ask embarrassing question as if it was something to question about in the first place.”

During the interview recorded in Nairobi on Friday and aired on CNN on Monday, President Uhuru set the record straight that he will retire from politics once his term ends.

He also dismissed claims that he would seek to amend the constitution in order to extend his stay in power.

“People are talking about Constitutional change not necessarily that they are desirous for the president to seek a third term but because of issues related to the cost of running this Constitution,” said Kenyatta.