Citizen TV news anchor Victoria Rubadiri was on the evening of Saturday, March 26, forced to spare a moment and apologise to viewers after she referred to Moody Awori as 'the late'.
Rubadiri was hosting two female guests with whom she discussed the state of women in Kenyan prisons; their discussion majored on the incorporation of once incarcerated women back into the society after reforming.
The journalist invoked the prison reforms the one-time vice president ever spearheaded and while at it referred to him as the "the late Moody Awori".
Awori during his heydays in power had proposed making correctional institutions humane for irrespective of gender and status, which the guest on Rubadiri's show invoked.
One of the guests while hailing Awori for his work noted Rubadiri's guff and went ahead to rectify her; the anchor apologised after realising her blunder.
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"Apologies, Moody Awori is alive and well. It was a misspeak. Apologies on my behalf," she said.
This came days after the former Vice President’s family dismissed reports that he had passed away.
The family was forced to issue the clarification after social media a couple of days back became awash with claims that Uncle Moody had ‘passed on’.
Awori served, as the country’s ninth second in command from 2003 to 2007. He was appointed as the Vice President by former President Mwai Kibaki following the death of Michael Kijana Wamalwa.
The 94-year-old also served as the Funyula MP from 1984 to 2007 before losing to current Busia Governor Paul Otwoma.
