Azziad Nasenya sets the record straight on Paris Olympics, Dubai trip controversy

Taking to Instagram, where she boasts over 2.3 million followers, the sensational starlet categorically stated that she was not one of the people the Ministry of Youth Affairs was planning to fly out to Paris, also clarifying her initial association with the Ministry.

She wrote : "I am not part of the Kenya delegation to the Paris Olympics 2024. It is unfortunate that someone would come up with false allegations on such a matter. My involvement with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy, and Sports was centred around the Creatives Technical Committee of the Talanta Hela Council, headed by Daniel Ndambuki, AKA Churchill."

"I was selected and mandated to represent the younger population in the Creatives Technical Committee. However, the committee was disbanded in June 2023. I've not involved myself since."

Nasenya went ahead to say that her last trip to Dubai, which caused controversy and misinformation online, was actually fully funded by the organizers behind the #VisitDubai initiative and not by the government of Kenya, further revealing that it was a content-creation trip whose receipts she had already published on her socials.

"I would also like to make it clear that my travel to Dubai and other places have been financed by myself, clients, or family, and never, as numerously claimed, by the Government of Kenya," she stated.

"There were allegations that I travelled to Dubai using money meant to renovate a stadium. At the time, I was in Dubai recording content for the #VisitDubai campaign, a trip that was fully funded by the client. The receipts are on my socials-smart, so people can confirm instead of believing rumours."

Nasenya, who shot to fame circa 2020 after participating in the dance challenge #Utawezana, also added her voice to the ongoing Gen-Z conversation, lauding her generation for their efforts and condoling with the families who lost their loved ones to police brutality.

"As a Gen Z, I am proud of all that we have accomplished in addressing government accountability in the last few days. My heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones while we fought for the future of our country," she said.

Nasenya's statement comes after intense public pressure has been applied on Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba to make public the full list of everyone traveling to Paris for the Olympics.

Many Kenyans have expressed fears that the CS might include tens of joyriders to the trip all on the Kenyan taxpayers' budget with others even going to court to pressure for the same.