You can’t take on Kenyans on social media and expect to win. This is a group of people who made history by forcing Twitter to suspend the New York Times Photos account.
Yes, that is KoT for you, they will research about you, get even the smallest of weaknesses and exploit it maximally.
So it happened that after Saturday’s boxing match featuring Fatuma Zarika and Catherine Phiri of Zambia, the Zambians were not happy with the outcome.
They took to social media, and called our own Zarika a man, yes, can you even imagine that?
I don’t know what these people expected but Kenyans descended on the page armed to the tooth.
Of course these Zambians do not even know Ruto, the most feared man in Kenya. And he can actually be send to deal with them.
Imagine being told that no one knows your country. Isn’t that going overboard.
It wasn’t long before Zambians issued an apology.
But even that was not enough as the trolls continued.
In fact one person went and edited the Zambian Wikipedia page, describing the country as a village in South Africa, created for medical research.
Now that is very brutal, but it didn’t end there.
And things got worse and worse!
“Keep quiet or we will send Governor Waititu to move Zambia to Malawi and give Ruto title deed apande ovacado,” Felix Tykim wrote.
“Am not a Kenyan. but phiri phiri usiyoila yakuwashia nini,” Heymann commented.
Dear Zambians, ask Nigerians what happened when they took on KoT:
Well, that is a battle to remember!