President Uhuru Kenyatta was on Thursday exposed by netizens after using fake statistics indicating that Kenya will be the leading economy in Africa in the next 20 years.
Uhuru's Twitter handle and that of the State House indicated that Kenya ranked at 38% globally in investment attractiveness ahead of Nigeria, South Africa and Ethiopia.
However, the statistics used had been obtained from a CNN viewers poll and wrongly attributed to the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business 2018 Report.
During his Wednesday night show, celebrated CNN journalist Richard Quest posed, "Which economy will lead Africa in the next 20 years? Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa?"
At the end of the interview, the journalist gave the results of the survey as Kenya (38%), Nigeria (37), South Africa (15), and Ethiopia (10) - the exact figures Uhuru attributed to World Bank.
"Kenya has improved 19 places to rank 61 in attractiveness to investor. The World Bank says that Kenya has made great strides in the process of registering property, protecting minority investors and cutting time spent on filing tax returns.
"The report surveyed 190 economies ranking Kenya among the top 10 biggest improvers, having jumped from previous years position 80," the message read.
However, the report noted that the country has been struggling with registering and starting a business in the country.
"It costs 25 per cent of the income per capita to start a business in Kenya which is almost ten times more expensive than in Côte d'Ivoire and the process takes 23 days compared to just four days in Rwanda," the report concludes.
