Raila Jokes At Gachagua Claiming Kenya Has Tigers [VIDEO]

Azimio la Umoja leader, Raila Odinga on Friday, September 15 joined millions of Kenyans in expressing their bewilderment at Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's claims that Kenya, believe it or not, has tigers!

For the entirety of Friday, Kenyans took to social media to express their shock at Gachagua telling a delegation in Bogota, Colombia that Kenya is home to various wild animals, including tigers.

“As we come to invest in Kenya, we have many facilities for tourism. We have rare species of wildlife in Kenya. The elephant, the rhino, the buffalo, and the tiger,” the DP claimed in jest.

While addressing the media, Raila poked holes at Gachagua's wild sentiments while expressing fault at the high number of international trips that Kenya Kwanza leaders including himself, President William Ruto and Prime Cabinet Secretary (CS) Musalia Mudavadi, among others, have been making one year since they assumed office.

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With both Ruto and Gachagua out of the country, the former Prime Minister complained that the leaders of the country were busy travelling all over the world while Kenyans were left to face the cruel realities that come with the high cost of living.

"It is unfortunate that innocent Kenyans are suffering when those who are responsible are globe-trotting, looking at coffee in Colombia and claiming that there are tigers. They are moving around when Kenyans are suffering," a stammering Raila commented much to the murmured laughter of the Azimio leaders.

Gachagua is currently in Colombia for the Coffee Producers and Roasters Forum while Mudavadi returned to the country on Thursday, September 14 after a four-day official visit to the United Kingdom.

Ruto is in the United States to underscore Kenya's commitment to tech innovation, having left the country on Wednesday night.

On Gachagua's tiger remarks, Viral Tea established that tigers have never been seen in Africa since more than two million years ago.

Regarding the high cost of fuel in the country at the moment, Raila attributed this to Kenya’s government-to-government oil deal with gulf countries, wondering where the Arab countries will take Kenyan shillings which are used to pay for the imported oil in the scheme.

“That is really the cause of the problem we are having when they interfered with OTS. I am talking to you as somebody who has been a minister for energy in my other earlier interactions. 

"They said they are going to do a g-to-g and that they are going to pay in Kenyan shillings and you ask yourself what are the Arabs in the Middle East going to do with Kenyan shillings? The chickens are coming back home to roost,” stated Raila.

Kenya in April started the government-backed fuel import credit scheme with gulf countries, which allows Kenya to import fuel on a 180-day credit period in a bid to ease the monthly demand for dollars and prop up the shilling against foreign currencies.

However, fuel prices have been on the rise, with the latest review by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) seeing all three fuel products; Super Petrol, Diesel and Kerosene hitting above the Ksh200 mark.

A photo showing EPRA's new price changes reflected at a fuel station. /MARVIN CHEGE.VIRALTEAKE