Political analyst Ambrose Weda has criticised Deputy President William Ruto after he was spotted in the streets of Vienna, Austria, cheering Eliud Kipchoge on Saturday.
The DP led a delegation of Kenyan officials, in an unofficial visit, to Austria, to watch Kipchoge breaking the two-hour marathon barrier during the INEOS 1:59 challenge.
Weda has questioned why the DP found it fit to travel all the way to Austria yet Kenyans have many problems which he was elected to office to help solve.
He said that the DP was better off in Kenya helping the government carry out its roles, in line with bettering the lives of Kenyans.
"I saw the deputy president there with a flag and I said we have been bewitched," he said, in an interview on KBC English Service's The Big Conversation on Wednesday morning.
He hit out at some of the top State officials who were cheering Kipchoge, arguing that they never contributed towards his success in athletics.
"We see garbage near Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC) yet the people we elected are cheering him, yet they did not even buy him a pair of shoes, it was a white man (mzungu)," he added.
The INEOS 1:59 Challenge which Kipchoge conquered to become the first man to run under two hours after clocking 1:59:40, was sponsored by British tycoon Jim Ratcliffe.