Why cracking jokes about Uhuru's weight gain is in bad taste

President Uhuru has always had a boyish look, one that belies the 59 years he has lived since arriving on these shores at 11:10am on October 26, 1961 at Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi.

Being a President’s son, it is safe to assume that was the only time he was slapped by a stranger, and on the butt no less, who was paid for the effort.

From the time he came into the limelight as an adult, and right up to the time he was sworn in, the President...