I wanted to wish you a very merry Christmas, although there are many Kenyans who have nothing to celebrate this season, because everything has been taken away, but I was distracted by Prezzo Bill Ruto’s wacky sense of humour.

When the man is not reading from a teleprompter, gesticulating wildly and foaming at the mouth, he delivers memorable quips that leave Kenyans in stitches, and which somehow infuriate him for reasons I cannot comprehend.