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Khalwale calls out Kericho senator for calling critics on social media useless
06th August, 2025 10:45 PM
Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale has publicly called out Kericho Senator and Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot for calling critics on social media useless during a parliamentary session.
Taking to his official X account on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, Khalwale defended the social media users, emphasising that they are not useless.
“No! Social media users are not useless,” Khalwale said.
Before issuing a statement on his official X account, the veteran politician had earlier challenged Senator Aaron Cheruiyot during a Senate sitting, urging him to retract his remarks branding social‑media critics as very useless people and to offer a public apology.
Insisting that netizens are not useless, the vocal senator further emphasised that there are many prominent individuals on social media, including the President of the United States and the President of Kenya, who have a massive social‑media following and pointed out that he himself has a following running into the millions.
“I would like to request the Senator of Kericho County to consider withdrawing the anti-parliamentary remarks that the people on social media are useless people,” he said during the proceedings.
“We have many people, including the president of the United States of America, on social media the President of Kenya has the biggest following on social media. I have the following running in the millions on social media; we are not useless. Could he be asked to retract and apologise?”
Cheruiyot’s response
While responding to Khalwale’s remarks, Cheruiyot clarified that his earlier remarks were not a blanket criticism of all social media users but those who are fond of criticising. parliamentarians.
“I said there are some, it was not a wholesome condemnation of everybody who uses social media there are people with no known achievements,” he said.
Earlier remarks
Kerocho Senator during the proceedings in the Senate argued that social media critics are very useless people, claiming that many have no record of meaningful achievements in life.
He said they criticise Parliament simply because they hold different views, even though at times Parliament takes actions that are considered right.
Cheruiyot, in addition, insisted that these individuals attack the legislature just because they disagree with it, even though Parliament occasionally does the right thing.
“Social media critics very useless people some who do not have a record of anything useful they have ever done in this life but are very critical of this institution called parliament simply because they hold a different view, and sometimes parliament does things which are considered to be right,”he said.
