Nominated Senator Millicent Omanga has refuted previous media reports which had claimed that she was ‘too big’ for economy class plane seats.
Omanga dismantled the news which had quoted her stating that she had written to the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) for special considerations in what she said that her body size should be considered because economy seats were too small for her.
In a heavily worded vocabulary press release, former Nairobi Women rep aspirant was breathing fire.
“It would help to remind the newspaper, and anybody else who shares in their warped thinking, that I’m proud of myself and my physique and neither sexist headlines meant to egg readers into reading a convoluted story nor journalistic skullduggery will change it,” she wrote.
She also noted that the speaker and the clerk of the senate were not aware of the the reports.
“Despite the Speaker and Clerk of the Senate saying they are not aware of such a request I made to PSC, It is unfathomable that the newspaper spared a whole page to belabor on pettiness rather than focus on issues that are of importance to Kenyans.
“It points to poor journalistic practices where readers are inundated with sensationalized stories each passing day and trivia, misinformation and disinformation are given prominence for commercial purposes,” she wrote.
The report also had indicated that some of her colleagues had supported her request claiming that some of the airlines had small and uncomfortable seats.
