A Nakuru family has termed a house gifted by President Uhuru Kenyatta to them as an embarrassment.
The family of Dennis Ngaruiya claimed a State House official who was tasked with building them a house by President Kenyatta embarrassed the head of state by giving them a shoddy house.
“To be honest, this is not a gift from the President but an embarrassment to him. I am sure this is not what he (Uhuru) intended to gift us. Wanjohi (State House official) embarrassed the President,” Ngaruiya said.
The genesis of Uhuru’s gift to the family is a moment at the Kenya Defence Forces Day celebrations in Lanet where Ngaruiya left Uhuru in stitches with his poem laced with popular phrases used by the head of state such as ‘ama namna gani wenzangu?’
Later, Ngaruiya and her mother were invited to State House where Kenyatta promised to build the boy’s mother a house.
A piece of land was then purchased in Lanet by former Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua during his tenure as the county boss.
A house, which Ngaruiya and his mother have described as a ‘big joke’, was then built.
The family house has a loose barbed wire fence and a wooden gate, which wobbles at visitors, at the entrance.
The family has since refused to occupy the house saying ‘somebody somewhere is shortchanging them’.