Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale is facing heat on social media platform X after posting photos of himself officiating the reopening of a toilet at Muliro Gardens.
In the images, Khalwale, who enjoys a following of 2 million on the platform, is seen addressing a small crowd during the ceremony.
He captioned the post: "Presiding over the reopening of Muliro Gardens Ico-Toilet. We thank the Court of Appeal for thwarting @BarasaFernandes' attempt to snatch the running of this facility from the Kakamega PLWD to gift it to his relatives."
However, the claims made by the senator in the post cannot be independently verified.
That aside, netizens wasted no time mocking him for what many considered an underwhelming achievement.
User @john_ronga quipped: "He's actually proud of it. Eih Mungu Baba, hawa ndio viongozi? While other world leaders are negotiating trade deals with the US, our top performers are launching toilets in a park. Oh God."
@mr_izzlake added: "Presiding over a toilet reopening? Don't we have any standards? Must you preside over everything?"
@festus_ihwangi commented: "Leave such duties to the MCA. Imagine how the MCA felt seeing his proud moment taken over."
@salim8james weighed in too: "Opening a toilet while people are hungry? Priorities."
Khalwale now joins a growing list of politicians who've been trolled for launching what many Kenyans see as underwhelming projects.
In 2020, Ephraim Maina-then eyeing the Nyeri Senate seat-was mocked after commissioning a wooden footbridge in Kabaru Location, Kieni East. Maina, an engineer by profession, even landed in a chopper to open the bridge, reportedly built at a cost of just Sh7,800 by the local community. He was joined by the area MCA, Duncan Gituanja.
More recently, Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo also came under fire after sharing a photo of himself helping locals build a mud house for a widow. His post read:
"#Ondoanyasi: Did the 103rd modest house for Mama Rose Osolo Nyakemba of Bonde Village, a widow who was not blessed with a child."
Some netizens were unimpressed.
@BrianMPeter said: "Stooping too low. How much would it cost to buy timber and build a decent house for a needy family?"
@NyabasaDanvas questioned: "Why can't you get them government houses-the same ones you were loudly defending as good for poor Kenyans?"
In Kakamega, Muliro Gardens is now a gazetted national monument under the National Museums of Kenya in which a lot of decent activities go on today that don't leave room for mischief.
Previously, social media was abuzz with talk of shocking photos of couples making out. Perverts and sex workers had turned a bench made of bamboo at the gardens into a love bed and used the park as a 'lodge.'
