Kiss FM presenters Chito and Cyd are on the spot due to their comments on a sensitive issue touching on the ongoing hunger affecting many Kenyans.
Speaking on her evening show, Cyd Wambui arrogantly asked the Kiss FM audience if they could eat chameleons.
“Are you hungry? What level of hunger can lead to eating a Chameleon? Would you ever? because there are children who are currently in hospital after eating and cooking a chameleon,” Cyd said.
Kiss FM was forced to delete a tweet with the controversial video in which Cyd wondered why anyone would eat chameleons. The tweet was deleted after a public backlash. Many tweeps expressed their frustrations with Cyd’s ignorance about the ongoing hunger.
Cyd Wambui’s comments comes a few days after two children were hospitalized after eating chameleons cooked for them by their elder sibling in Nyakinyua village of Molo-Sub County, Nakuru County. The elder brother of the two boys who were admitted admitted to cooking a chameleon together with potatoes due to hunger.
Joyce Chepngetich, the mother of the kids who ate chameleon, said she was dumbfounded when she found two chameleon heads on the floor as she attended to the children in deep pain.
The eldest son told her he had prepared chameleon soup for them after they spent the whole day crying because of hunger.
“He said he had to feed them the chameleons because they had been crying the whole day, complaining of hunger,” the mother said.
With the help of neighbours, the woman rushed the minors to a private clinic in Molo before they were later transferred to Molo-sub County Hospital for specialised medical attention.
Medical officials at the hospital said the minors aged two and four years were treated for food poisoning.
Chepng’etich pleaded for financial assistance to take care of her family saying she doesn’t have food.
Chepng’etich was offered a county job by Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika after the media highlighted her plight.
Kuresoi North Sub-county Administrator Nicholas Kiplagat said the county boss had directed the single mother to be employed in the environment department so that she can be able to provide for her family.
