Kenya's Trending Topics on June 1, 2018

Kenyans were on Friday engaged in heated discussions over the events of the day top among them a tweet by lawyer Miguna Miguna.

Netizens shut down the self-proclaimed freedom fighter over a remark that implied that Opposition leader Raila Odinga was paid to shake hands and hug President Uhuru Kenyatta

Commentators advised the self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) general to move on.

Here are some of the comments that were shared on the trending topic "Raila Odinga".

#MadarakaDay/ Kinoru

Kenyans used the trending hashtag to follow the events of the national celebrations of the 55th commemoration of Madaraka Day held at Kinoru Stadium, Meru county on Friday.

President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a number of directives during his speech at the event including the order to all procurement and accounting heads in government to take a mandatory lie detector test.

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was also given an opportunity to address the crowd that had gathered where he encouraged Kenyans to appreciate the struggle that brought about self-rule.

Here are some of the posts that were shared.

The topic also emerged as Kenya's top trending search on the Google search engine.

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