Kikuyu music sensation Ben Githae has been forced to apologize to Gen Zs after nonstop ‘greetings’ online.
In an interview on Inooro FM, Githae the voice behind Jubilee’s 2017 campaign anthem Tano Tena, has asked for mercy, saying the backlash over his recent State House visit had turned his phone into a war zone.
“I want to apologize to all Kenyans, especially Gen Z. I have surrendered, and I don’t want to be greeted like you greeted me three weeks ago. Please forgive me if I have wronged you,” Ben Githae said
On May 20, Githae and a group of Mount Kenya musicians posed for photos with President William Ruto and Deputy President Kithure Kindiki at State House. The artists praised government programmes, a move that many young Kenyans read as tone-deaf in the middle of rising living costs.
After the photo went viral Gen Z critics flooded his inbox with “greetings” slang for furious DMs and promoters quietly scrubbed him from event posters. “I don’t want those greetings again,” the singer told listeners.
Just a month earlier, a video of the musician belting out Kindiki ni Witu , a praise track for the deputy president during a breakfast at Karen, further fuelling accusations that he had swapped gospel for political PR.
