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The Gusii Genocide
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- Published on Saturday, 18 October 2008 21:19
Apparently, the same station was quietly swindled away from the individual without due compensation whatsoever. It is beyond reasonable doubt that our small but exponentially expanding community is unequivocally marginalised in the national scene. The recently ended Olympic Games in Beijing, China, sort of opened my eyes. Why we are not represented in a majority of events? Ask yourself why. For example, how many swimming pools are there e.i in the entire mogusii land? The answer will astonish you .Please do find out.
Those agriculturally potential highlands (coffee, tea bananas, beans, and vegetables and fruits) we highly contribute in the tourism sector with our beautifully crafted soap stones.-I find it a reap off. These poor people are experiencing difficulties that a few in the Diaspora can manage to solve. The plains are not only cut off during rainy seasons , rather the leadership that has been there, no names please.....have not fulfilled the requirements---I’ll rephrase--- Have not been presenting the populations grievances as per needed. A few have tried, like the little known or forgotten Late. Morara,(who was he, what did he do, what happened to him) Prof. George Sagini, Onyonka, and Mogunde Anyieni among others. We are not getting what we deserve. Is there a road or anything that has Moseti Anyona’s name..Current of cause? I do not have a clue.
With the hefty pay package the President has offered to the honourable members of the August house I am wondering what they are doing with it. Where is their grass root transparency? Does a local MP have an office in his constituency? Maybe hook up a phone line, have access to the internet, or maybe a secretary that writes the peoples’ grievances, to be tabled in parliament? What the job descriptions of a local MP are other than preside over the famed CDF funds? Do our MP’s have websites to show their progress, plans or agenda?
Let’s now go back to the basics.
With an expanding population, there come several calamities. Persistent Witch craft among others are what need to be addressed. I have been asking family and friends on these topics, but no one has spoken well about it. All they know is that, there are people practising this backward custom. Most of them are jealous and hate driven, poor, uneducated, have never traveled beyond their local community (affordable local tourism) and are generally surrounded with poverty. There are no solutions or even hope around them for any betterment.
Culturally, women have been discriminated against as unequal to the male species, which is not the case here in the High seas, but a complete opposite. Issues such as land inheritance (male dominated), accessibility to adequate funding, and the social service sector have rarely been discussed openly. The very few connected are reaping the tax payers money with no remorse.
The poor state of hospitals with dealing in emergency situation and outbreaks (both water and airborne) should also be ratified. It goes well beyond the abagusii as a whole. Doctors are operating their own private practise, thereby preying on the poor. This is where the government needs to step up their game. The roads situation has greatly improved, as I am told, but the same sources quote that more needs to be done. The 60 feet trucks can not cruise well into the interior- What does that mean to the common mwananchi? He/she does not have access to a variety of goods- what of services? You tell me.
Tsetse fly infestation, vaccination, Malaria, Animal husbandry, zero grazing, artificial Insemination and other vet services such as Inoculation, proper management of our little resources needs to be taken back to the common man. We are also not getting enough fish in our (the) diet of the crying Omogisii; it is therefore my humble plea that some sort of swimming pool fish rearing communally constructed to cater to this good people. It could be done by the banks of our flowing rivers. A small pit, for example, say 7 by 10 feet, could rear about 500 fish. These will greatly increase quarterly, with good rains.
What sort of entertainment goes around this population? It is a though to our leaders.
The annual community event, organized by honourable Nyachae around the harvest period should be extended to all locations in our land. Our culture is slowly weaning; therefore we require passing the baton from the older to the young. In my constituency, Bassi, (in 1996), there were merely 4 female students in public universities in Kenya. Why is that? Don’t we have enough Lecturers in higher education? We have totally forgotten the little know former Vice Chancellor Dr. Ombosa; who died mysteriously. Seems there is a trend going on within our community.
The transmara border clashes are also a matter to be dealt with by the leaders from the two sides. The killings, as one has mentioned has been going on from time immemorial. Cases of cattle rustling from both sides, the land issues viz cultivation and grazing areas often spark tempers and warfare. I spoke to a leader from the Maasai community, Ole Maasai, and he bravely said that ,”the war there should be seen as a soccer match between the boys from each sides, and every young man has to participate in the old ager ritual like those before us”.
