Ferdinand Waititu was catapulted to political stardom by a media that assiduously reported on his outrageous antics.
The news media followed him as he slapped people, incited violence against an ethnic group, exchanged rock projectiles with opponents in the streets of Nairobi, and vented rabble-rousing rhetoric. He became the MP of first a constituency in Nairobi and then another in Kiambu, before rising to become the governor of Kiambu County.
