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What Koffi Olomide did is shameful and unforgivable

When a man shouts at a woman it is okay, when a man cheats on a woman well it’s understandable, but when a man hits a woman in public, that’s unforgivable. It doesn’t matter what the reasons are but there is no explanation why a man should hit a woman publicly.

The incident that transpired two days ago won’t be forgotten in a very long time; what Koffi Olomide did at the JKIA will haunt him forever. How can he hit a woman publicly on Kenyan soil? Whoever said that you should not mix personal issues with business was right, Olomide mixed his personal issues with his career and now he has to deal with the consequences.

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