On Tuesday, March 11, President William Ruto pledged to buy the Governor of Nairobi a machine that can make up to one million Chapatis.
The President’s remarks followed a request by Governor Johnson Sakaja to support the county in acquiring the machine.
It would then be used to make chapati, which the county plans to introduce in its Dishi na County School feeding programme.
Ruto directed Governor Johnson Sakaja to source the machine.
“I have accepted the request to buy a chapatti-making machine, therefore, I ask the governor to source for a supplier,” he remarked at St Teresa’s Girls Secondary in Mathare, Nairobi.
The students had requested to have Chapati included in their Menu.
Following the remarks and after Ruto’s remarks went viral, several social media users took it upon themselves to calculate how much it would cost to make a million chapatis.
Others looked at the logistics that would be involved even as they questioned the viability of such a project.
The existence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) however took some of these activities a notch higher even as social media users competed to outsmart one another by making memes out of the chapati issue.
Videos and images of possible imagination of how a million chapatis would be made have now flooded Kenyan social media.
Here is how the social media users reacted;
"It's rainy season and instead of working on drainage system, they are talking about chapati. Black people with black hearts," one @_Jmaes041 said.
"Today the enemy is that machine. Niko rehearsals,"Chapatimistress said.
"Ametenga chapati milioni moja, this guy is a joke,"Obrahtrades said.
"You're overdoing it. Sakaja asked for a chapati maker, and Ruto offered to buy it if he found one. Focus on future talks like AI instead of wasting energy on irrelevant stuff."
Moha_souz said, "Hio CHAPATI itoke Mandera ipitie Kotulo iende Wajir ipitie modogashe iende Isiolo ipitie nanyuki ikuje hapa Nairobi kwa sakaja."
"Out of all the things going awfully wrong in this country, someone occupying the highest office in the land wakes up and says "Naah these people need chapati," Tl chaos.
Franko Tover said, "What is the "chapati vibe" distracting us from?”
“Kenyans, with their peanut-sized brains love excitement and drama, and politicians use this to divert people's focus? What big thing is happening? What is getting stolen while we vibe about chapatis?"
“I'm showing my mum all those chapati memes and yooh😭😂 she's so in with us cooking that El Chapo," TongileiM said.
"Why would you out of nowhere think of bringing a chapati machine when you could use that money to buy oncology machines?" Sly Ogoye.
