Citizen TV’s Willis Raburu isn’t the Originator of The Witness Tweet

In a rather surprisingly appalling move, Citizen TV’s Willis Raburu (he of the ‘Truth Meter’ fame) last evening tweeted the identity of the Prosecution Witness 536 who had earlier in the day testified against Deputy President William Ruto and former radio journalist Joshua Sang.

This triggered a lot of angry tweets from KOT even after Raburu had deleted the tweet as he was criticized for exposing the witness to great danger. But now it has emerged that Raburu wasn’t the originator of the tweet and that he was just reposting what he had seen on Twitter.

The identity of PW536 was initially exposed by one David K Lagat in response to KTN’s tweet;

@KTNKenya Dont say witness 536 please say Grace *** ***

— Davis K Lagat. (@Terigin) September 17, 2013

It is after this tweet that Raburu and other KOT started posting about the witness’ identity.

At the end of the day though, what he did wasn’t right considering he has a huge following hence the impact is greatly felt.