Did the shoe accidentally hit President William Ruto during his public address in Kehancha, Migori County, on Sunday, May 4?
Dennis Itumbi, the Head of Presidential Special Projects & Creative Economy, holds that opinion.
Itumbi has shared a different angle of the footage recording the incident, in which it appears the hurling of the shoe at the Head of State was not premeditated.
“So, having reviewed the Migori footage — the FACTS are clear. What started as a light moment quickly escalated,” Itumbi says on his Facebook page.
According to the video shared by Itumbi, when President Ruto took the microphone to address the meeting, the crowd eagerly raised their phones to capture him.
However, one person– lacking a smart phone– became creative, Itumbi says. Instead, he lifted his shoe in jest, pretending it was a camera.
It was during this moment, he adds, that someone beside him, “annoyed that the ‘shoe-cam’ blocked his view, slapped it away. Unfortunately, it flew forward… straight toward the President.”
“That was just a moment that got out of hand,” Itumbi opines.
He adds: “Now — I’m actually looking for the owner of the ‘shoe-camera’. A friend of mine Sam Mburu is offering a real phone for the ‘shoe-cam’ guy so that he can in future create content with a real camera. So he can channel that creativity into content, just like he wanted. Help me find him. Inbox if you know who he is.”
Meanwhile, police have since arrested three people in connection to the incident.
According to sources privy to the investigations, authorities are piecing together intelligence to determine whether the incident was an isolated case of an angry person, or a deliberate attempt to breach the president’s security.
