Richard Quest Apologizes to Nairobians over ‘extra-ordinary jams’ Tweet

CNN top business presenter Richard Quest coated a lot of controversy during his one week visit to Kenya last week.

On Wednesday last week, the journalist wrapped Kenyans the wrong way when he commented on the extra ordinary traffic jams in Nairobi.

Quest was not impressed with the fact that policemen direct traffic along Nairobi roundabouts despite the availability of new traffic lights. In his own words, he said ‘The jams are extraordinary.’

Majority of Kenyans were angered by his Tweet. One engineer even tried to explain to Richard why Police man the roundabouts.

Some Kenyans were however not interested in diplomacy and warned and prayed that he loses his phone to famous Nairobi phone snatchers when taking another photo.

It seems Quest has learned his lesson and indirectly apologized to Kenyans over his traffic comment. Upon landing in New York on Monday morning, Quest was received by heavy traffic, perhaps more worse than the one he had criticized in Nairobi.

He Twitted a picture of himself held up in Traffic and told Nairobians  “you ain’t the only one with bad traffic!’

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