Deputy President William Ruto and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen were at Sambirir Girls in Marakwet over the weekend to launch the schools ICT and Resource Centre and the pictures taken during the launch have caused uproar on the internet.
The two leaders who were present to officiate the opening of the centre were trolled all over social media for what Kenyans term as a mediocre project.
The initiative funded by the government of Kenya, Ministry of Education and National Government Constituencies Development Fund raised 18 million for the school to acquire new equipment for the ICT Centre including computers to replace the obsolete ones.
However, the Deputy President and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator were pictured inspecting ‘old’ computers complete with floppy disks.
Furious Kenyans took to Twitter to condemn the leaders for spending Sh18 million on such computers.
Coming to the leaders’ defence, blogger Abraham Mutai took to Twitter to explain that the pictures taken were of the old computers that are yet to be replaced.
The Elgeyo Marakwet Senator retweeted the blogger’s tweet on his official handle:
@PeratoN_Senior If you are true and genuine leaders, you should have bought brand new computers put them in your v8s. How could you even take a photo of such computers,? you guys fear to think.
@ledamalekina My Good Lord … the computers are from the 19th century!LOL Mutatuonesha mambo!
@JimmyJa89756016 Talk about launching computer’s museums
@proudMamasgirl African leaders never fail to amaze me ????????What kind of computer is that?
@jjogola ‘…funded by GOK through MOE & NG-CDF…’
@glennkaruga Yaani computers ziko na kisogo ndio mmenunua na 18M???????????? Nyinyi wote mnafaa tu mkue situation ya designated survivor tuanze a fresh with young leaders wenye wanajielewa!
‘…You raised 18M for equipping the centre…’How do you reconcile those 2? What exactly was the GOK funding? If you don’t come out with as much detail as you did for the dams, we are prone to misinterpret the whole exercise…
@gitongaraymond_ So they open a new lab and even cut the ribbon,,,, did the computers come with the new lab? Were they transferred from the old one?, why not buy the computers before launching the new lab, but who are we to answer such question