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The Government of Kenya has reacted to United States President Donald Trump's 'shithole" remarks about African countries, Haiti and El Salvador.
Government spokesman Kiarithe appeared to defend Trump, stating that the attacks not directed at Kenya and therefore have no significance to Kenyans.
“The statement was not an official matter that say is related to the relationship with the government. We enjoy a cordial relationship,” he told a press briefing in Nairobi on Thursday.
He went on: “We are studying the context in which these statements were made and see whether it is worth the attention.”
His reaction, however, differs with that of African Union, which has demanded the US President to withdraw and apologize, saying the remarks were racists.
“The African Union Commission is frankly alarmed at statements by the President of the United States when referring to migrants of African countries and others in such contemptuous terms,” AU chairperson Moussa Faki, last week said through his spokesperson Ebba Kalondo.
“Considering the historical reality of how many Africans arrived in the US during the Atlantic slave trade, this flies in the face of all accepted behaviour and practice,” said Faki.
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@Hon Kenjuu, Kiraithe is a coward shithole. Kiguoya kia nyina. He has not guts to stand a bully
Kenjuu, you may be pained by Dumb Trump but take a moment & consider that he only uttered the truth in very vulgar language. Fact is Kenya & Africa are failed or almost failed states which simply lack the capacity to run like real nations. How else do you account for the rampant corruption, deaths from easily preventable ailments, millions going to bed hungry / starving in this day & age when technology has completely transformed agricultural output everywhere, mediocrity in all spheres - governance, public works, education centers etc. Why are you here / outside your country??? Shithole might be too harsh a term but Dumb Trump has a point
They are still "studying the context of the words"? Are they memorizing the words, weighing the words with a measuring scale and how much more time do they need to take care of this daunting task?This is part evidence why these politicians will not utter a word as long as they are getting 2 cents from the west.They would rather sell their soul.
@hon kenju you are the shitiest of all the shitholes. You are the reason Africa will remain a shithole continent for ever. Take Trump's shitty comment and Kiraithe's reaction as a challege for you and your people to lift yourselves out of shitholism. The insults you have spewed above makes Trump or even Babu Owino look like a big joke.
"Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues". Kiarithe your statement display how foolish you are.
I just read an article in Yahoo News about the migration and permanent settlement of African Americans back to Africa. This is mainly in West African countries. I know for sure that Ghana grants automatic citizenship to any African American who wants to settle there. The time has come now when all African countries should extend this gesture to any African American who wants to settle back in any of the 54 countries of Africa.
Ndugu Kiraithe should know that since the first Africans kidnapped from Angola settled in the current USA in 1619, African Americans have not been accepted by most of the current descendants of European Americans whose ancestors stole the entire continent of the Americas. The countries stolen by these illegal aliens from Europe are: Greenland, Canada, USA, Mexico, the 7 countries of Central Americans , the 13 countries of South America, including all the countries in the Caribbean.
I am challenging all the current leaders of Africa to extend their olive branch to all the descendants of the formerly kidnapped Africans whose migration was forced upon them as soon as Roman Catholic Pope Nicholas the Fifth declared that, "Africans have no soul and therefore should be sold as slaves." The first kidnapped African was sold to Portugal in 1441.
Just imagine the words used by Kaka Donald about the African countries! Couldn't his Turkana African American friend Ben Carson - Secretary of Housing educate him about Africa? After all, he said that his ancestors are indeed the current Turkana People of Kenya!
Donald Trump must apologize to all the 54 African countries including Haiti for the negative choice of words he used to describe them. He should also outlaw his European American KKK, Neo- Nazi's friends who hates the people of Africa, Asia, and the Indigenous People in all the lands that the illegal European immigrants stole and now occupy. He should treat the above hate groups as "domestic terrorists" and dispatch the US Army to dismantle them. This should be in a period of less than a year. If these hate groups refuse to conform, they should be repatriated back to their lands of ancestry in Europe. Enough is Enough!
Nawaomba viongozi wa serikali ya Jubilee wamwachishe kazi Kaka Kiraithe. Hatuwezi kuwa na watu kama yeye wanakiitumikia serikali ya Kenya na huku hawaelewi yanayoendela duniani.
Kiirathe grow up!!!
African Union should be mindful of the Black Man's image all over the world.
Demanding an apology from Trump as African Union has done,that's good but not enough. African Union cannot make Trump withdrawal the obscene remarks but it can come up with a joint response, a decree such as:
Demand all African member states to summon their Ambassadors to clarify and explain Trumps dirty remarks.
Second, African Union should move to United Nations to demand a resolution demanding condemnation, withdrawal and apology by Trump/United States for such profane derogatory and obscene remark against African Continent and her descendents.
Think about it: What if such remarks were made against the state of Israel by a world leader-
Would all the world nations remain silent? I think not!
Kaka imara too much whining about slaverly, colonialism and such b/shit. Do you think that's the reason we are still the poorest, the sickliest, the most ignorant 50 years on? Why have we, even educated people like you accepted mediocraty as a way of life?
@ Muthokoi, you are full of shit and no brains! U can kiss Trump's and other White supremacists smelly asses for all I care. First, step outside your village in Bondo or wherever it might be to see how other communities in the world live. Then and only then will you appreciate (if you have any brains to learn and think constructively on your own) that most states in the USA as well as many countries in Europe are poorer and far less educated than Kenya. Just visit states like Mississippi or backward countries like where Melania Trump comes from!! So, you can accept whatever vulgar and racist name a White supremacist calls you but don't pull good proud people of Kenya in the shit gutter with you. You want to kiss White shithole asses, do it alone without implying that the rest of Kenyans are as ignorant and self-hating like you.
@kenjuu I think you have mukimo instead of real brains. You have nothing between your ears. Your small brain has not yet realised that this man Trump insults everybody regardless of their colour. Last year he called his European allies assholes who cannot pay for the security that America provides them. Did you hear them crying racism?
Je, Ndugu @Muthokoi. Sikuelewi! Lakini sitakutukana!
true trump owe us unappology
This sob is in denial because he has no spine, has no moral strength to stand up for himself or his country even when he egregiously insulted in the worst way possible, and he is a spineless good for nothing living dead filled with inferiority complex. Let him be enslaved mentally and physically by leaking assholes of White supremacist real shitholes He doesn't speak for me, my family, my country nor all my people of Kenya and indeed Africans and their descendants wherever they may live. This shit brain incompetent fool should have kept his opinions to himself rather than public embarrass our country and its people that a person employed by Kenyan people can be so ignorant and naive as to support an equally ignorant White supremacist racist shithole president whose grandfather migrated to America from Nazi Germany with only grade school education and penniless! Kiraithe, you are a grave shame to your family, the Wameru community, the Kenyan people, the African people and indeed all good descent sons and daughters of God. Shame on you and I pray that Uhuru fires you then you can be a real slave in Trump Towers!!!