For all the numerous speeches that he has read, it appears that President Uhuru Kenyatta is not that eloquent after all.
During the Mashujaa Day celebrations in Machakos on Thursday, the president was at pains to pronounce a word in his written speech and promptly skipped the โhardโ word.
In the middle of his speech, the president came across the word โvitriolicโ which he didnโt even attempt to pronounce only mumbling, โhiyo ngumu sanaโ (thatโs too hard), before proceeding with the speech.
โOur unity is not complete: we remain divided by ethnicity; the faults of the past still haunt us; and our politics, as we have seen today, is tooโฆย hiyo ngumu sana,โ President said during his speech which was televised on all major stationsโ
According to the dictionary, the word vitriolic is an adjective which means โ filled with bitter criticism or malice.
But few would have expected the word to be problematic for President Kenyatta who attended the prestigious St Maryโs School before proceeding to the the Amherst College in the United States to study economics, political science and government.
Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution wereย students are not required to study a core curriculum or fulfill any distribution requirements and may even design their own unique interdisciplinary major.
Source-nairobinews.nation.co.ke