Safaricom Discredits FAKE Statement Chiding Gachagua Remarks

A news release depicting Safaricom responding to remarks made by Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua in an interview on a vernacular radio station is a hoax. 

This was after a section of Kenyans weighed in on the bogus statement widely on social media.

Safaricom warned Kenyans to rely on communication provided on their verified social media handles instead of the statement. 

On Tuesday, Gachagua’s words about empowering small business owners to slip into the tax bracket went viral on social media. 

He claims that this will help the country generate more resources.

Different interpretations of his Kikuyu dialect speech surfaced, eliciting different reactions from Kenyans.