Another Fast Food Restaurant Forced To Apologize For T-shirts Demeaning The Famous Saba Saba Rally

Another Nairobi fast food outlet has found itself under increasing pressure and condemnation from Kenyans after its promotional message was found to be in bad taste and even demeaning of one of Kenya’s most important days.

The management of Big Square restaurant which has several outlets in Kenya dealing in fast food, wine and beer had asked its staff to put on T-shirts with bore the message that “I was not there, Saba Saba, I was at Big Square,” While the management says they meant a different Saba Saba one in which they had a company function, the general public fell the allusion to the venerated Saba Saba day which was one of the highlights of the multiparty struggle was pretty too much hence the vitriol directed towards the company.

This led to the company issuing an apology through its manager Morne Deetlefs. The Manager took to Twitter to issue the following in a series of tweets;

“Poleni sana, I deeply apologize for the offence caused by our actions and any perceived insensitivity,” Deetlefs’ message read.

“Yesterday a photo of a Big Square branded t-shirt was posted on Twitter. The message on the t-shirt was in reference to the 2014 rally held in Nairobi. Our intention was never to make light of a painful day in Kenya’s history. We have taken the lesson from this incident to heart and have withdrawn all t-shirts with immediate effect,” he added.

“Big Square is a business that is proudly Kenyan, We do not take the sacrifices made by our fellow patriots for granted,”