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Veteran singer Eric Wainaina is the talk on social media thanks to his new satirical song on runaway corruption in Kenya.
In a video shared by the hard-hitting singer-songwriter and viewed over a thousand times, Wainaina spares no effort in firing the first salvo at the Jubilee administration over graft.
According to Wainaina, politicians who have looted public coffers dry should clean up the jails as they are next in line to be locked behind bars.
"Clean up the jails Jubilee because that's where you are going, make it good because you are going home… Clean up the jails because that's where you are going (X3), make it good, make it good because you are going home," sang Wainaina.
An uncompromising jab at the political class by the Berklee College of Music alumnus that hit the right notes for many Kenyans.
@solidarity007, “This song is gonna get a Grammy nomination. What a song!”
“Eric Wainaina you need to record it for us so we can have it on repeat mode lol they going home hahaha,” @BeckyMlawasi tweeted
@Victor_Amarr added, “From singing proudly "Daima Mimi Mkenya, mwananchi mzalendo" to "Clean up the Jails Jubilee" just shows how far we've fallen as a nation and every little hope we did (or could) sing to ripped off from us by these bad politicians in a decade and a half. We're doomed!”
In his 2001 hit Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo, Wainaina similarly voiced frustrations at fraudulent conduct by those in power and highlighted its permeation into all spheres of life.
Reminiscing on the song’s impact, Wainana told the BBC that the government viewed it as an indictment and cracked down hard.
Wainaina claimed that he was followed and monitored by police officers at any event he was invited to play in.
The singer narrated to the outlet that in one instance, in a show of force, he was allegedly harassed on stage at the Kenya National Music Festivals where a powerful politician was in attendance.
