Since a video of Daadab Member of Parliament Farah Maalim making offensive statements about the teenage demonstrators in Kenya surfaced, Kenyans demanded that Maalim be arrested and charged with a crime.
In the now-viral undated video, Maalim declared in his Somali accent that he would have “slaughtered” five thousand young protestors every day if he had been president of Kenya.
According to a verified video translation, the legislator was criticizing the Kenyan Generation Z for trying to march to the State House as part of the demonstrations against the Finance Bill 2024.
According to him, the young individuals who marched to the streets came from affluent families and were sent to the nation’s capital specifically to cause chaos.
“This was an attempted coup, a blatant one. Children of affluent business owners and wealthy parents, along with youths raised on questionable wealth, predominantly from one ethnic group, were transported to downtown and instructed to riot and seize control of State House and Parliament buildings,” he stated.
Maalim unequivocally stated that if he were the president, he would have exterminated them, 5,000 per day.
“God forbid if I were president, I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them every day. Seriously, there’s no other way about it,” he said.
Maalim has claimed that the video has been altered and is misleading, despite careful analysis evidently demonstrating that it was not altered.
He was compelled to clarify the video during an interview on Tuesday, where he mentioned that his opponents are conspiring against him.
“It’s all about editing, cutting, and pasting—taking words from different places and piecing them together. There’s a lot of nonsense in there. It’s mainly Somalis who would do this because I commented on their politics. It doesn’t reflect the true situation,” he explained.
Maalim got into a scattered defense of his remarks, pointing out that he was protesting attacks on vital national infrastructure and that similar invasions had left other countries in a condition of disorder.
“The point I made is… when you talk about seizing State House and Parliament, you’re targeting two constitutional institutions crucial to the stability of our country and the democracy we uphold,” he stated.
“I’m emphasizing the seriousness of this by warning that so-called popular movements or revolutions, as seen in Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere, often lead to devastating outcomes.”
No matter how hard one tried, Maalim refused to comment.
