A Chinese business owner, Liu Jiaqi, may soon face deportation from Kenya for calling the country’s president Uhuru Kenyatta a monkey.
In a video capturing him in a conversation with a Kenyan citizen, he bluntly expressed his opinion about the nation he describes as “poor, foolish and black.”
He was arrested a few hours after the video sharing his offensive comments was shared on various social media platforms.
Interior CS Fred Matiang’i is set to sign deportation order anytime from now.
Jiaqi owns a shop located along the Eastern Bypass where he sells motorcycles.
The viral video was recorded by one of his employees whom the Chinese trader had threatened to fire without regard for the labour laws.
In the video, the Chinese brags that there is nothing that poor, black, Kenyans can do to him even if he fires the said employee.
A tweet by Kenya’s immigration service confirms that the Chinese citizen has been arrested and is being processed to leave the country.
The incident is happening at a time of China’s interest in Africa.