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"Not my words, they were edited," Farah Maalim on viral video mess

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Dadaab MP Farah Maalim. [KTN News]

Dadaab MP Farah Maalim has distanced himself from an undated viral video depicting him making inflammatory statements while discrediting the Kenyan Gen Z movement.

According to the lawmaker, the video was taken at a recent book launch event he attended in Somalia but has been manipulated to distort the sequence of his words.

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