Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has once again found himself on the receiving end, hours after he confidently and boldly stated that President William Ruto has bought a machine that will be making roughly 6,000 chapatis per day.
Taking to his X account on Friday, October 31, 2025, Lawyer Willis Otieno has bashed the governor for being a short-sighted leader.
He drew a parallel of how global leaders are launching tangible and long-term developments, while Sakaja is busy with chapatis.
Willis Otieno bashes Sakaja
Otieno wrote, “While other cities are building smart infrastructure, digitising public transport, and managing waste with AI, we are out here industrialising breakfast.
“The tragedy of leadership mediocrity is that it mistakes culinary automation for urban transformation. Sakaja seems determined to turn Nairobi into a kitchen instead of a capital.”
Otieno went on to state that it is evident and clear that the Nairobi Governor is after turning Nairobi into a kitchen and not the desired capital city that should serve as the centre of interest.
All the same, the development comes just hours after Governor Sakaja revealed that the smaller chapati-making machine acquired by the Nairobi County government can only produce between 6,000 and 8,000 chapatis per hour.
Sakaja says the County purchased a chapati-making machine
He explained that the machine will be used under the county’s “Dishi na County” feeding program, which provides meals to school learners across Nairobi.
If operated for five hours a day, for instance, from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m., the machine would produce approximately 30,000 to 40,000 chapatis, falling well short of the county’s ambitious one-million chapati target.
“President William Ruto’s chapati-making machine is still coming, but we acquired one that can produce 6,000 to 8,000 chapatis per hour,” Sakaja stated
In March this year, President William Ruto agreed to the request by Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja to help the county buy a machine that can make one million chapati for the Dishi Na County.
In his acceptance speech, Ruto said, “I have agreed to buy a chapati-making machine. Governor, your job now is to find where to buy it.”
