Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta\u00a0made a\u00a0surprise\u00a0visit on Monday\u00a0to an\u00a0eatery in a famous public market in the capital Nairobi\u00a0where he ate\u00a0the country’s delicacy, nyama choma<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Nothing out of the ordinary here\u00a0because Kenya’s politicians are known to make\u00a0publicity stunts when\u00a0they want to show that they relate to ordinary Kenyans.<\/p>\n In this case Mr Kenyatta was having nyama choma days after using the food as a metaphor to castigate opposition\u00a0leader Raila Odinga,\u00a0telling him that he can continue to salivate as\u00a0the governing coalition\u00a0continues to enjoy ruling the country.<\/p>\n The enjoying part is the eating of the roast meat.<\/p>\n Pictures of the lunch\u00a0have\u00a0been widely shared on\u00a0social media\u00a0with new interpretations of the\u00a0metaphor being offered:<\/p>\n And the press has\u00a0stoked further\u00a0interest in\u00a0the story by\u00a0revealing\u00a0that Mr Kenyatta\u00a0spent 21,000 Kenyan shillings\u00a0($200; \u00a3160 & 70,291Ugshs) on the lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta\u00a0made a\u00a0surprise\u00a0visit on Monday\u00a0to an\u00a0eatery in a famous public market in the capital Nairobi\u00a0where he ate\u00a0the country’s delicacy, nyama choma \u00a0Nothing out of the ordinary here\u00a0because Kenya’s politicians are known to make\u00a0publicity stunts when\u00a0they want to show that they relate to ordinary Kenyans. In this case Mr Kenyatta was having nyama choma days after using the food as a metaphor to castigate opposition\u00a0leader Raila Odinga,\u00a0telling him that he can continue to salivate as\u00a0the governing coalition\u00a0continues to enjoy ruling the country. The enjoying part is the eating of the roast meat. Pictures of the lunch\u00a0have\u00a0been widely shared on\u00a0social media\u00a0with new interpretations of the\u00a0metaphor being offered: And the press has\u00a0stoked further\u00a0interest in\u00a0the story by\u00a0revealing\u00a0that Mr Kenyatta\u00a0spent 21,000 Kenyan shillings\u00a0($200; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}