El Chapo: Kenyans unleash hilarious AI memes over Ruto's 1 million chapati making machine

When President William Ruto casually announced a plan to introduce a machine that churns out a whopping one million chapatis daily, Kenyans on X (formerly Twitter) did what they do best, turned it into pure comedy.

AI-generated images flooded the platform, bringing the ambitious chapati dream to life in the most outrageous ways.

One viral image showcases a futuristic chapati factory, complete with massive conveyor belts rolling out endless stacks of golden-brown delights.

Robotic arms flip and stack the chapatis at lightning speed, ensuring that no Kenyan ever goes without their beloved flatbread.

If the fictional character from Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka had a chapati factory, this would be it.

Wadao! The chapati printing factory! pic.twitter.com/ZiBEewRFt3

— Sen. Karungo wa Thang'wa (@KarungoThangwa) March 11, 2025

But Kenyans didn’t stop there. One particularly hilarious AI creation features a flooded Nairobi street, where desperate citizens wade through murky waters, except for one lucky crew. They’re comfortably afloat on a giant chapati, their makeshift “lifeboat” proving that, in Kenya, even disasters can be seasoned with humour.

As if we are going to use chapati to navigate the floods in Nairobi.

Rotten to the core.#RailaRutoMustGo pic.twitter.com/cTG9obIJvV

— I am Chege (@_James041) March 12, 2025

Another meme paints a chaotic yet mouthwatering vision: the streets of Nairobi buried under mountains of chapatis.

It’s as if the one-million-a-day machine went rogue, blanketing the city in fluffy, golden goodness.

The streets of Nairobi after Ruto starts making One Million chapatis daily. pic.twitter.com/RboResWy4q

— KIPRONO (@Onorpik) March 11, 2025

The internet’s creativity didn’t spare the political class either. One widely shared image hilariously imagines Members of Parliament ditching official documents for stacks of steaming chapatis.

These AI chapati memes are hillarious ? pic.twitter.com/IYZpe1nBH4

— KENYA GOSSIP HUB (@kenyasgossips) March 12, 2025

But the meme that truly took the cake, or rather, the chapatti, reimagines a Kenyan classroom where students are deep in study, not with books, but with stacks of chapatis as their reading material.

Schools in Nairobi today. One million chapatis already distributed! ? pic.twitter.com/PReIWrEh8N

— Cornelius K. Ronoh (@itskipronoh) March 12, 2025

The teacher lectures as if nothing is amiss, perhaps suggesting that Kenya’s future education policy might involve edible textbooks.

Amidst the laughter, one X user, Billy Mwangi, decided to crunch the numbers, "So, the machine makes 1 million chapatis per day. That’s 41,667 per hour, 694 per minute, 12 per second. Even Usain Bolt can’t keep up with this speed!"

Here are some of the funny images that have come out from different Kenyans after the President vowed to get a machine capable of producing one million chapatis in a day.

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— I_am_Daniel (@daniel_ohtienoh) March 12, 2025

Another user added their own "national development" plan, "If we make 1 million chapatis daily for 55 days, we can store 55 million chapatis and feed the whole country. Now, imagine if we had 55 machines! We’d be the world’s chapati capital."

On March 11, Ruto, alongside Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, confirmed that the high-production machine would support the Dishi na County school feeding program.

With over 300,000 students already benefiting, Sakaja sees chapatis as the next big upgrade.

"I am feeding 300,000 children in Nairobi, and now I need one million chapatis daily. I will ask the president for a chapati-making machine," Sakaja announced.

Ruto agreed to the request, sealing the fate of Kenya’s school meals, one million chapatis at a time.