Question and Answer

Question: Which VIPs were on hand, and on time, to receive Kenya’s first, and Africa’s first female Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai when she flew back into the country?
Answer: Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) Managing Director, Dr Achieng Ongong’a.

Question: How many minutes late did Vice President Moody Awori and Enviroment Minister Kalonzo Musyoka turn up?
Answer: 25 minutes

Question: What excuse did they give for being late?
Answer: We weren’t late, the plane was early.

Question: Which other VIPs were present?
Answer: Local Government Minister Musikari Kombo, Assistant Minister for Education Beth Mugo, East African Legislative Assembly MP Rose Waruhiu and Naivasha MP Jane Kihara.

Question: Where was the president?
Answer: Gallivanting at the coast.

Question: How many ministers are there in the Kenyan cabinet?
Answer: Twenty nine

Question: What percentage of the cabinet was on hand to receive our first Nobel Laureate?
Answer: 6.8%

Question: How do you smack the other 93.2% of ministers upside their heads?
Answer: You don’t. Their security is trained to kill.

Question: What the hell is wrong with our country?
Answer: There is nothing wrong with our country, thousands of Kenyans lined the streets to welcome Wangari Maathai home. Her convoy was stopped atleast twice on the way from the airport as the crowd demanded to see and hear her.

Question: When will Maathai get a cabinet position?
Answer: When the Somali president goes home, (probably never).