William Ruto's New Shirt With Leaf Imprints Sets Tongues Wagging: "Tingiza Mti"

• President William Ruto showed up at the coast on Thursday in a unique short-sleeved buttoned shirt
• Ruto is in the region for a five-day working tour, as earlier hinted by government spokesperson Hussein Mohamed
• The president's shirt dotted with leaf imprints left some Kenyans discussing; the decorations resemble a typical weed plant

Tana River county - President William Ruto is at Kenya's coast for a five-day working tour.

He started it off in Tana River on Thursday, July 27, when he commissioned the Tana Delta Irrigation Project rehabilitation and issued cheques to the county's fishing community.

Ruto's special shirt

However, in a bit, perceptive Kenyans chose to overlook the agenda of the president's tour to spotlight the shirt he had worn.

He wore an apparently cream short-sleeved shirt dotted with digitate leaf imprints.

Those analysing the shirt had weed plant in mind.

Ruto is known to be a teetotalling Christian who has no record of using substances.

Roots Party of Kenya leader George Wajackoyah was among the Kenyans that reacted to Ruto's unique shirt.

He blasted the president in the midst; he accused him of disappointing Kenyans close to a year after taking office.

"William Ruto, you can put as many Bangi shirts as you can, but that will still not save you from the hungry and angry public," he tweeted.

Narok senator Ledama Olekina also joined the trail.

He indirectly suggested the president had legalised bhang.

"I see hemp being legalised," he tweeted.

Legalisation of bhang

Wajackoyah rode on the legalisation of bhang as he made his first stab at the presidency in the last year's vote.

He often explained how the substance's exports would positively impact Kenya's economy and, ultimately, people's livelihoods.

The celebrated immigration lawyer stated that a Kenyan would be getting over KSh 200,000 annual dividends from the sale of the plant in, for example, Nyeri county.

"If we grew bangi in Nyeri alone, as you see, each Kenyan would get a dividend cheque of KSh 200,000 every year. That is Nyeri only," said Wajackoyah.

He added that if this were done nationwide, everybody would become self-sufficient.

Wajackoyah posed why one would engage in boda boda when they have assured money being deposited in their accounts daily.

After getting such huge bonuses, he questioned what type of house one is entitled to: a tiled-floor house or a house made of iron sheet walls?

"Everybody would be having their money. Why would you then have a boda boda business? Will you build a tiled-floor house or an iron sheets-walled one?)," added the presidential candidate.