This has been a very busy week for Kenyans as we just concluded the country’s General Elections that was held yesterday. Kenyans have been commenting about the elections, from their experience during voting and checking out the events that were happening on social media.
In the last 48 hours, the timelines in our social media feeds have been inundated with people eagerly waiting for the results and political opinions. The feed has become monotonous with such content and gladly we have our comic relief.
During the polling process, one photo of a man eating githeri (githeri, a Kenyan dish is a mix of maize and beans) was shared on Twitter and it was quite iconic.
KU primary voting going on smoothly. This one is enjoying Githeri as he waits to vote #KenyaDecides #Elections2017KE pic.twitter.com/y0POCWv75g
— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) August 8, 2017
The guy decided to snack on his githeri while queueing to vote and this photo was quickly turned by Twitter users into a Photoshop battle and it is hilarious!
Githeri guy was placed on a scene of the famous TV show, Game of Thrones
https://twitter.com/Trackmann/status/895313420748169217
He was also in Statehouse with the leaders
Kwani hii githeri ni stock kiasi gani pic.twitter.com/mqFBSw241J
— gadems maya (@gadems_maya) August 9, 2017
The guy was also placed with the Kenyan rugby team
— Stephen Musyoka (@smusyoka) August 9, 2017
Githeri guy with the NASA leaders
Ignore Raila Odinga, Mike Sonko and Form 34As. The man with Githeri on the far end has won this election. #kenyadecided pic.twitter.com/dqY0LNDiyJ
— Kimani Mwangi (@KimaniMwangiS) August 9, 2017
He was placed among the famous black artistes who took a selfie with Obama.
Noooooo 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/XgncIe79OX
— Droid (@droid254) August 9, 2017
He was also placed in another selfie…the one that was once the most retweeted selfie of all time on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AdrianSurname/status/895309701432455169
New member of the Justice League
https://twitter.com/markimwa/status/895296698276347904
Really people? Really? Lion King?
https://twitter.com/AdrianSurname/status/895319130521313280
This should be an album cover
https://twitter.com/mbugua_/status/895327152437993472
Him with Trump
Someone tell kamau to stop 😂😂😂😂#GitheriMan pic.twitter.com/s19DhvgTyE
— ຸ 🇰🇪 (@justus_muriithi) August 9, 2017
With the Kapenguria Six
https://twitter.com/_marggieh/status/895373310321729536
Cast member of the Fast and the Furious gang
fast 8 and #Githeriman pic.twitter.com/13mZ4Sm0na
— MARTIN (@MARTINizme) August 9, 2017
Him watching Jesus
https://twitter.com/Moqayah/status/895346080694636553
And we end this stream with this: Two memes coming together to form one super meme
— Droid (@droid254) August 9, 2017
*UPDATE*
Citizen TV has been able to track down the Githeriman and found out that his name is Martin Kamotho who lives in Kayole, Nairobi and works as a government cleaner for Nairobi County.
#GitheriMan
Name: Martin Kamotho
Age:41
Residence: Kayole
Occupation: County gov’t cleaner
Marital status: Married
Children:1 daughter pic.twitter.com/dv4ylW0UNU— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) August 10, 2017
