A journalist, on Tuesday, received an earful from Parliament's Minority Leader John Mbadi after he reportedly asked the wrong question.
Mbadi had put together a press conference aimed at addressing the ongoing debate on controversial features of the new banknotes when the reporter asked a question that was not in line with the event's theme.
In his response that tickled the crowd, the outspoken politician offered to remind the journalist that the event was his and that he was fully in charge.
"With all due respect, I wanted us to focus on this. You may find what you are taking me to more juicy (sic) than what I called you for.
"Please, I'm the one who called for this meeting, you are robbing me my time to advance your own agenda which is very dangerous," he stated.
He further divulged that he had been in his line of business long enough to know how stories get lost adding that he was open for a different date to discuss the journalist's pressing matter.
"Why don't you further my agenda and then you can call me tomorrow or even Thursday to discuss all the other matters," he posed.
Mbadi further condemned the debate surrounding the design of the new currency notes revealing that it really did not matter whichever angle of Kenyatta International Conference Center was used on the final banknote.
"I was persuaded that that statue amounts to a portrait. There are others who are not persuaded. Why can't we do it in a way that we don't have questions marks and that people are satisfied?
In the meant time, the notes that have been printed we have no issues with. Does it hurt this country even to have the portrait of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta? Why should we outlaw the face of our founding father?" he argued.
Many Kenyans had been disappointed by the new notes since they contained the statue of Kenya's founding president.
They argued that the constitution had outlawed the portrait of any of Kenya's presidents from being printed on the notes.
