When i was working at Kapkatet District hospital towards the end of the year 2007, it started to emerge that it was no longer tenable for someone from the central province of Kenya to be working in those areas.i started experiencing some hostility, even suspicion as the date for the elections in December approached. one day my car was involved in a small accident at Litein town and the people who gathered there were siding with the other driver ,uttering snide and rude remarks about how Kikuyus were not even supposed to be using the local roads and wondering what we were up to anyway and that we should leave before we were pushed out.
we were able to sort out the issue with the other driver by pulling him away from the menacing crowd. we finally had to leave early for Christmas and what finally followed after the disputed election is well, history.
The crimes committed during and after the elections were horrifying,people were murdered, women raped, houses and churches burned down with people inside them: patients were left with no one to take care of them- whole towns were destroyed to get rid of businesses from outside and finally revenge missions were organised by the other side.
It therefore comes as a great surprise when all this is made to look like a comical and badly scripted play by our politicians, one wishes that they would just shut up and let nature take its course. The people who were affected by the violence will never even recover and are watching miserably when their suffering is made to look like a bad dream that never actually happened.It always amazes me whether all politicians are like this the world over or is it just in Kenya where you can commit murder,rape and theft and still walk around free and committing more crimes with an eye to public office ?
Unless something is done in Kenya right now the world will again be caught napping when the next bout of violence ,erupts as it is being engineered now.LET the world not be deceived that violence can be spontaneous ...it is always made to look that way by the architects, most of whom are politicians or well, -Kenyan politicians.
we were able to sort out the issue with the other driver by pulling him away from the menacing crowd. we finally had to leave early for Christmas and what finally followed after the disputed election is well, history.
The crimes committed during and after the elections were horrifying,people were murdered, women raped, houses and churches burned down with people inside them: patients were left with no one to take care of them- whole towns were destroyed to get rid of businesses from outside and finally revenge missions were organised by the other side.
It therefore comes as a great surprise when all this is made to look like a comical and badly scripted play by our politicians, one wishes that they would just shut up and let nature take its course. The people who were affected by the violence will never even recover and are watching miserably when their suffering is made to look like a bad dream that never actually happened.It always amazes me whether all politicians are like this the world over or is it just in Kenya where you can commit murder,rape and theft and still walk around free and committing more crimes with an eye to public office ?
Unless something is done in Kenya right now the world will again be caught napping when the next bout of violence ,erupts as it is being engineered now.LET the world not be deceived that violence can be spontaneous ...it is always made to look that way by the architects, most of whom are politicians or well, -Kenyan politicians.
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