President William Ruto throughout a previous operate. PHOTO/FILE
By PATRICK MAYOYO
President William Ruto’s promise to buy a chapati-making machine able to producing a million chapatis for Nairobi County’s faculty feeding initiative has earned him a brand new nickname: “El Chapo”.
As soon as once more, the President managed to tickle the nation together with his newest promise – a chapati-making machine that would produce an astonishing a million of those pleasant flatbreads day-after-day.
The reality is there isn’t any chapati making machine has been invented wherever on this planet.
This has resulted in him being playfully dubbed “El Chapo”. The moniker is a cheeky play to the identify of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, however it additionally incorporates the Swahili time period “chapo”, which affectionately refers to those tasty pancakes.
President Ruto made the announcement at St. Teresa Women Secondary College in Mathare, following his improvement tour of Nairobi, after Governor Johnson Sakaja requested help in buying the machine.
Sakaja defined that the machine can be used to make chapatis, which the County plans to introduce as a part of its “Dishi Na County” faculty feeding programme.
An AI generated chapati making machine. PHOTO/UGC.
The Governor, ever the showman, requested the President’s assist in buying this extraordinary machine to boost the “Dishi Na County” initiative.
Apparently, the scholars had developed a keenness for chapatis – and who might blame them? These golden discs of pleasure are the proper accompaniment to any meal.
With a flourish, President Ruto agreed to the request, leaving Governor Sakaja to embark on a mission to seek out this marvel of culinary engineering. “I’ve agreed to purchase a chapati-making machine,” he declared to the cheering college students. “Governor, your job now’s to seek out the place to purchase it.” And thus, the nice chapati hunt started.
Nonetheless, not everybody was amused by this grand promise. Social media exploded with memes and jests, as Kenyans poked enjoyable on the thought of a machine able to producing such a staggering variety of chapatis.
Some even composed songs concerning the chapati-making machine, whereas others questioned the very existence of such a tool. In spite of everything, cooks expert within the artwork of chapati-making argue that no such machine exists wherever on this planet.
Because of this, President Ruto joins the ranks of the nickname elite, with *El Chapo* being his fourth moniker since assuming workplace. He has beforehand been dubbed “Zakayo” or Zacchaeus by Era Z.
This reference harks again to the biblical determine who was a rich tax collector in Jericho, compelled to climb a sycamore tree to see Jesus. After their encounter, Zacchaeus publicly declared his intention to provide half of his possessions to the poor and repay anybody he had wronged fourfold.
An AI generated chapati making machine. PHOTO/UGC.
Then there was “Kasongo”, a title impressed by successful track by Tremendous Mazembe, wherein the band members sing a couple of good friend who went lacking, abandoning his pregnant spouse, who implored him to return dwelling.
And, in fact, who might neglect “Kaongo”, or “The Liar,” a nickname given to him by the identical Era Z, who’ve grown more and more skeptical of his guarantees.
In a rustic the place nicknames are a badge of honour, President Ruto has definitely earned his fair proportion. And when he speaks, the nation holds its breath, not in anticipation of profound knowledge, however in expectation of one other light-hearted quip that may have everybody in stitches.
On this planet of Kenyan politics, plainly laughter is one of the best drugs, and President Ruto is the chief pharmacist.
On this nation, nicknames are way over playful jabs—they symbolize each affection and irony in equal measure. President Ruto, ever the grasp of nationwide amusement, has definitely earned his place on this esteemed (and ever-growing) corridor of fame.
With each speech, the nation waits, not in reverence for groundbreaking coverage or world-changing knowledge, however in gleeful anticipation of the subsequent comedic gem that may have us gasping for air between matches of laughter.
Within the realm of native politics, plainly laughter is the one actually “life-saving” drugs. And who higher to play the function of chief pharmacist than our very personal President, El Chapo, the person who tickles the nation with the promise of a chapati utopia, a million at a time.
