A Chinese national identified as Liu Jiaqi has been deported following his arrest for referring to President Uhuru Kenyatta and Kenyans as monkeys.
The Immigration Department on Thursday posted on Twitter that Jiaqi’s permit had been cancelled.
“Liu Jiaqi a Chinese National who was arrested due to his racist remarks has been deported,” Immigration department wrote on its Twitter handle.
UPDATE:
Chinese National by the Name Liu Jiaqi who was captured on video yesterday using abusive words has been arrested. His work permit has been canceled and will be deported on racism grounds. Via @GKihalangwa cc. @InteriorKE @FredMatiangi #AskImmigrationKE pic.twitter.com/o0hS6d219K— Immigration Kenya. (@ImmigrationDept) September 6, 2018
UPDATE:
LIU JIAQI a Chinese National who was arrested due to his RACISM remarks has been DEPORTED . Via @GKihalangwa cc. @InteriorKE @FredMatiangi #AskImmigrationKE pic.twitter.com/yHJu3azx2i— Immigration Kenya. (@ImmigrationDept) September 6, 2018
Jiaqi was secretly captured in a video by a worker he had threatened to sack from his motorcycle shop in Ruiru.In the clip, the trader brags that there is nothing that ‘poor, black, smelly’ Kenyans can do to him.
An employee filmed Mr Liu, who is a motorcycle trader, saying that he disliked Kenya because it “smells bad and [its people are] poor, foolish and black”.
When the employee asked why he wanted to stay in the country, the trader said he was only there to make money.
Police arrested him hours after the video was circulated online on 5 September. Mr Liu appeared to be threatening to fire an employee in the three-minute video, which according to the Chinese embassy was filmed in June.
When the employee asked why he was being targeted, Mr Liu said it was because the employee was Kenyan.
Mr Liu then launched into an offensive diatribe about why he disliked the country and its people.
“All the Kenyans [are] like a monkey, even Uhuru Kenyatta,” Mr Liu said.
Nairobi’s Chinese embassy spokesperson, Zhang Gang, told AFP that Mr Liu “has already been punished by his company for his wrongdoing and apologised to his Kenyan colleague”.
“The personal talk and personal feeling of this young man does not represent the views of the vast majority of Chinese people,” he said.