Kenya has arrested a Chinese businessman after a video of him making a string of racist remarks was widely shared on social media, the government said Thursday. .

According to AFP, the Chinese national, identified as Liu Jiaqi, has been arrested and is being processed for deportation, said Kenya’s immigration department. .

“His work permit has been cancelled and (he) will be deported on racism grounds,” the immigration service said on its Twitter feed. .

In the two and a half minute video shared online, Liu, who appears to be in the midst of a dispute with one of his employees, is recorded issuing a litany of racist slurs. .

“Everyone, every Kenyan… like a monkey, even Uhuru Kenyatta. All of them,” he said. After the employee suggests Liu should “go back to China” if he feels that way, the businessman responds with further abuse. .

“I don’t belong to here. I don’t like here, like monkey people, I don’t like talk with them, it smells bad, and poor, and foolish, and black. I don’t like them. Why not [like] the white people, like the American?” He added that he only stays in Kenya because “money is important.”

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