In 2012 when President Uhuru Kenyatta was the Deputy Prime
Minister, he was hosted for an interview at Kenyatta University by Equity Bank
CEO, James Mwangi.
Uhuru revealed a lot from his earlier life including
incidences where he was bullied by some school boys who beat him up and when he
rushed home to tell his father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the old mzee told
him to learn how to fight his own battles.
Here is his inspiring story;
One day in school the class 7’s beat
us and since all my class 6 classmates knew my father was President they urged
me on saying, ‘ do something, show these guys your Dad is President’
So we all went to the telephone booth
and we knew how to use the booth without paying and mzee picked the call and he
listened to my story all the time responding, Aha….Aha…then when i was done he
paused for a while, and everyone was waiting for my word.
My dad then said, “You must learn how
to fight your own battles” and he disconnected the call”
“I had been beaten and told off, but
I turned smiling and assured my classmates that all will be well as any other
child at that age would do…I knew nothing would be done but luckily the next
day the teachers heard about the incident of our beating and really punished
the class 7’s”
here is a video proof.