Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja is under scrutiny for requesting President William Ruto a machine that would make 1 million chapatis a day. Sakaja clarified that the machine would boost Nairobi County’s school feeding program, “Dishi na County.”
The governor, who accompanied the head of state on a working tour at St. Teresa’s Girls in Mathare, Nairobi, on Tuesday, explained that he was feeding over 300,000 students, and the machine would help make more chapatis for the school-going children.
“I am feeding 300,000 children in Nairobi, and now I will need to make one million chapatis. I will ask the president to help me with a chapati-making machine,” Sakaja asserted.
In response to Sakaja’s request, President Ruto agreed to buy the machine to support the Dishi na County initiative.
“Governor Sakaja has requested that chapatis be included in the Dishi na County program. He wants a machine capable of making one million chapatis per day, and I have agreed to his request,” Ruto affirmed.
Leading a section of Kenyans in criticizing the Nairobi County boss, Saboti Member of Parliament, Hon. Caleb Amisi, said Sakaja lacked a proper agenda for Nairobians. He pointed out that the city’s road infrastructure was in a deplorable state, and more innovations, like the underground speed train system, should have been considered instead of a “gigantic chapati-making machine.”
“A governor of the biggest regional capital city, whose GDP is more or equal to about 15 African countries, boasts of chapatis as his main economic activity and legacy project,” Amisi wrote on X.
The lawmaker added, “He even requests the head of state to forget the underground speed train system, overpass roads around the city, and water points across residences, but instead, to buy him a brand new monstrous gigantic chapati-making machine to help him make 1,000,000 chapatis per minute.”
