The United States Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter on Sunday received backlash from a section of Kenyans online over his tweet condemning corruption in the country.
In a tweet, Ambassador McCarter said the government’s next move in the war against graft should be to go for the big fish.
McCarter wrote the tweet after attending an integrity walk organized by Transparency International, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Judiciary.
“Stood with courageous friends #TIKenya vs Thievery that is depriving the wananchi of the deserved prosperity of the big 4. We must say NO to thievery. @USAMarafiki is boldly engaging to defeat this cancer of Thievery. The big fish must be caught,” McCarter tweeted.
His tweet elicited reactions from Kenyans on Twitter who asked him to explain what the US has done to help Kenya fight the vice while others accused him of dining with the so-called big fish.
Rambo Kanambo wrote: “U write thievery and big four in the same sentence, don’t you know the big four is being spearheaded by the thieves themselves pretending to be the saviors of the sycophantic people who believe anything a political office holder says is the gospel truth.”
In response, Ambassador McCarter noted: “You are missing the important point here. Don’t let your politics blind you from the fact that the price of the big 4 = the cost of thievery. 800 Billion ksh.”
@wakahonyo posed: “You once had dinner with the biggest fish, what happened?”
McCarter replied: “Pretty simple. I remember it very clearly. I ate my food and left to go back to my home. All I can say really. I don’t divulge my private conversations or strategies to fight thievery. No need to educate them.”
@KaymanGeorge said: ” Stop these sideshows and do the needful..You know very well how our leaders, from top to bottom, are corrupt but your govenrment can’t even ban their travel to the USA.”
responding to him, Ambassador McCarter wrote: “You should not comment on what you do not know.”
