Larry Madowo Fires Several Bullets At Dennis Itumbi Leaving The President’s Social Media Handler Badly Hurt
Social media seems to have made everything easier and faster. It is very easy for me to reach out to, for instance, the President or his deputy and criticize them for what I feel is a failure in some part, or rather if I want to stoop too low and abuse them with the heaviest words on earth. Ask Allan Wadi.
It is easier but it all depends with where the message passes before it gets to the most powerful men in the country. And this is what in communication we call noise. Noise could be the likes of Dennis Itumbi , Manoah Esipisu and company who handle the social media accounts of the president and his deputy.
And this explains why NTV’s Larry Madowo has taken shots at the handlers for being intolerant to criticism.
In his Daily Nation column, Larry has compared Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Kenya’s Uhuru and Ruto. While he admits Kagame personally handles his twitter account and responds to tweets, he laments that Uhuru and Ruto have left their accounts to the likes of Itumbi whom he calls goof-prone communication handlers.
Larry lamented that Ruto’s handlers are not tolerant enough to criticism as they block anyone who airs dissenting views towards the DP.
Here is what he said: