Award Winning UK Gospel Artist Apologizes For Making Disparaging Comment about Citizen TV

Last Friday, award winning UK Gospel singer, Lurine Cato, made some denigrating remarks about Citizen TV in response to a video posted by Lupita Nyong’o on Facebook.

However, following an outcry by Kenyans on Twitter reacting to the article we did, the 2013 MOBO award winner, was forced to recant her statement and say ‘sorry’ for being dumb. In a tweet posted on Friday evening, Lurine said;

“…yeah I messed up looked and it and thought ‘what’? Dumb, really Lurine! What I was thinking translated wrongly sorry.”

@ChegeDun @RobertAlai yeah I messed up looked and it and thought ‘what’? Dumb, really Lurine! What I was thinking translated wrongly sorry.

— Lurine Cato (@LurineCato) February 21, 2014

It’s no the first time for an internationaly-acclaimed individual to make deriding remarks about Kenyans as Bishop TD Jakes, Korea Airlines and Jimmy Kimmel have all, in the past, looked down on Kenyans.

However, their comments have always been met with forbearance.