William Ruto deals with challenging and angry questions following last week's deadly protests.
The willingness of Kenya’s President William Ruto to engage in a live audio discussion on X Spaces was keenly anticipated, coming just 10 days after deadly anti-government protests.Participants struggled to connect. And there were three or four false starts.
“Traitor” his compatriots posted on X, getting the word to trend. There was no doubt this was the result of some sort of effort to get those involved in the protests to take part.“Are we in a terrorist country?” he asked, referring to the brutal police response to the protests that left dozens dead. An unabashed Marvin Mabonga, an unemployed university graduate, told the president: “In your cabinet, we have so many incompetent cabinet secretaries.”
And it is historic in the way that it has brought citizens up close with the authorities and given them a largely unfiltered forum to ask hard questions. Yes, the online activism is not new. KOT – Kenyans on Twitter, now X – have forced corporations in the past to issue apologies.The X Space provided a platform for live, one-on-one engagement with the country's leader, and enabled members of the public to speak truth to power.
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