It all started when Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi took to Twitter on Monday, October 12 to tease COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli about recent political meetings that had been happening from his Kajiado home.
The senior counsel posed a question, “Who GAGGED Mzee Francis Atwoli? Is Camp David in Kajiado closed?”
Within no time, the fiery trade unionists responded to the lawyer’s question with a lengthy hard tackle.
Atwoli said: “I can choose to work from my office in Nakuru; Solidarity building; Khartoum; Brussels or Geneva. While I am currently busy negotiating for salaries in Nakuru you are busy swindling money from clients. The Kajiado meetings are on strategic political issues. I am a trade unionist,” replied Atwoli.
Kenyans on Twitter join in the conversation
Kenyans on Twitter (KoT) also joined in the conversation, with some applauding Atwoli for the hard tackle, while others sided with Ahmednasir.
@ahmednasirlaw wuuuuuiiiiii.. A life threatening tackle but the referee waves play on.. We are in the 22min of play. Scores are 3-nil to home team. The away team is livid. That away team has always survived on grand graft in top echelon of government over the years!
— Seth N Amondo (@Seth_Sesu) October 12, 2020
Tackle ingine life threatening 😂😂😂 sc grandmullah will be out for the rest of this season…. Aaah kumbe Atwoli ni box to box midfielder…. Apewe Ballon d'or basi pic.twitter.com/bd1lhW2JOf
— Bob Picasso (@BobMlazzow) October 12, 2020
Man down pic.twitter.com/K5YEDirJQu
— @MWIRIGI_BOSS 🇰🇪🇶🇦 (@mwirigiboss) October 12, 2020
Baba Atwoli,we offer sincer apology on behalf of our lost SC,he will be back on truck inshaAllah,all sheeqal elders are praying for him currently😂😂😂😂😂
— Abdiraa_24 (@Abdiraa24) October 12, 2020
Atwoli should just retire, akacheze na wajukuu,Kenya needs a strong workers leader not a petty one
— XXΛDDI🇰🇪 (@Realxxaddi) October 12, 2020
A trade unionist in bed with government??? You should deal with double taxation on salaries. Pyrethrum workers issues! Pensions! The list is endless.
— Hon. Kimaningunjiri (@kimaningunjiri) October 12, 2020
He is negotiating for salaries and not wheelbarrows. If Ruto is a true leader, he should back a poor man for president. The country needs modern think tankers in the management of this country and not wheelbarrow givers.
— Raila ni Shujaa (@matesobilachuki) October 12, 2020
If confusion was a person 🤣🤣.uko tu kama Magoha ..stretegic political issues by a trade unionist? What are we missing?
— Amos the 3rd (@AmoHsToo) October 12, 2020
Baba Atwoli sasa mbona wewe na murathe mmenyamaza…after you advised the deep state to bar Ruto from attending harambees?, as Dinga's political advisors, you advised @RailaOdinga to start organizing harambees and attend church services..hamna another strategy?
— VÎÇTØR KÒGŌ™ (@kogokipkirui) October 12, 2020
You have been saying you are negotiating for salaries since forever. What is the current minimum wage? Why are workers still exploited, lastly why have your turned COTU into a political wing?
— Marshall البيان (@Marshkipruto) October 12, 2020
@AtwoliDza should be informed that this thing call Outsourcing in companies is another hell.. hii Ni slavery.. do something. WATU wapewe job kama ni job.. si kutumika .
— Click Here (@JosephMongare1) October 12, 2020
Waah! There was a show on TV in 80s called, YOU ASKED FOR IT. He got his early morning dosage!
— Joe (@chothep) October 12, 2020
Interesting, but yet no trade union actually trades, they only politic and collect dues from their members and extort employers.
It is time we called this businesses by their true names.
— The Village Madman – urban edition (@SokoMad) October 12, 2020
Atwoli!You and Stalin,what's the difference?You're like that period everybody thought there was a monopoly at the AGs' office,where the AG was Amos Wako!
— Malcolm X-KE (@jim_munene) October 12, 2020
Huyu mzee kumbe anaweza kuwa na comeback 🤔 pic.twitter.com/oC4zE1NwS9
— Hillary Kipronoh🇰🇪 (@h_kipronoh) October 12, 2020
