Samson Kiptum

Samson Kiptum

Thursday, January 15, 2015

WIFE GRABBING

I have heard of men who are ruthless when it comes to land grabbing but the wife grabbing thing is new to me. Read about the Uganda Ministry official who was arranged in Court for wife grabbing.

Via Uganda New Vision Tabloid. www.newvision.co.ug/news/663738-ministry-official-sued-over-grabbing-wife.html

CUT OFF THE HATE MONGERS FROM THE SOCIETY

"And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant"

When someone's posts this on social media and that person has had an history of insulting people using the word "foreskin" I tend to think that there is no doubt he had the previous intentions.

If he will be found guilty this time again I would recommend that he gets a lengthy jail term ,if not be deported to a Medieval land somewhere in outer space ,I think he belongs there.

Moses Kuria is disgrace to the civilized generation.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

TEACHER'S STRIKE CALLED OFF,BUT HOW?

The calling off of the Countrywide teachers strike that had paralyzed learning for about two weeks was this time round done in a very different way.

 Usually the Government and the trade unions go into negotiations which ultimately may lead to an agreement to call off the strike.

Today thought saw a different twist in the manner in which the strike was called off.Unlike the usual handshakes between the parties involved in the conciliation process, this time round the industrial court exercised it's jurisdiction of ordering for specific performance.

In this case,the Judge of industrial Court ordered the Trade Unions to call off the strike and subsequently file the dispute matters before it.
This is because the trade dispute between the teachers Union and the Government was not able to be resolved after conciliation.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED FROM FIDEL ODINGA'S BURIAL.

We all got clued to our television sets following albeit with sorrow the proceedings in Bondo. You may have been grief-stricken because of the pain you felt for the Odinga family or you were thrown into anguish by   the tragic death of conscience, consideration and maturity of  some of our leaders.

Which ever the case we all had lesions from the Bondo live broadcast.

KENYAN POLITICIANS HAVE NO SCRUPLES.
I would consider the utterances in  Bondo to be vile, abhorrent and obtuse. In fact   most of the statements were capable of   hurting if not meant to create enmity among good citizens of this country. Most of those spears who stood to address the mourners had little consideration for the grieving family but instead took political advantage of it.
I compared those politicians to a person who would queue behind a punch of rapist raping his mother and when it is his turn he rapes the mother mercilessly one for the lack of consciences.
Really where conscience when one is takes a microphone to insinuate that indeed someone had a hand in Fidel's death yet there is still investigations?

Were did conscience go when a leader stands to criticize the Government when indeed they are supposed to condole the bereaved family.

Where did ethics go when a fully grown up man insult a woman who was not able to conceive a pregnancy on National Tv?  

THE  BONDO MOURNERS DID  PISS OFF THE NATION.
There is no doubt that social media yesterday was jammed by posts and tweets about the conduct of out mourning brothers  in Bondo. To be honest there were no kind posts or comments about their behavior. In fact one wondered if really it was necessary for them to heckle even if it is their way of showing grief .

I don’t know why Hon Raila had to tell one of the mourners to be a gentleman yet we know our brothers to be gentleman. May be “gentlemasness” sometimes has to be stripped and what remains is insolence, flippancy and fatuity. Let’s say that is how differently we are when mourning.

RAILA ODINGA IS A MATURE POLITICIAN.

Hon Raila Omolo Odinga is undoubtedly one of the  most mature leaders this County has ever had. Raila yesterday won many hearts from his address to the mourners. Although most of his critics had predicted that he would do his videndalwili that was not to happen for he surely took a Babas role, the Baba he has always been only that he seem to listen a lot to his advisers who yesterday looked like politicians in dippers.

KENYANS ARE NOT DIVINED ALONG TRIBAL LINES BUT THERE IS AN IMAGINARY LINE DIVIDING US.
You will agree with me that Fidel's demise brought out one very vital lesson that tribalism is cultivated by the politicians and thrives well when we are having elections. You will agree also with me that Fidel knew no boundaries, he knew no tribe for he had friends all over the world.
You will also agree with me that what divides us in not our tribes but our imaginations that our elected leaders have boundary lines when they meet in Parliament or even in social places. It is our frivolity that has divided us nothing else.

EVEN THE LEARNED CAN BEHAVE LIKE ILLITERATE VILLAGE DWELLERS.
"The poachers are out again, they Poached Senator Kilonzo my Father, poached Senator Otieno Kajwang and now they have poached Fidel "
I thought I was hearing my own things until I flipped to another channel when indeed it downed to me that education will never change our perceptions.
I had to move close to my TV to see who was speaking. What! Kethi Kilonzo!

, the learned fellow? that was not practical.   

Saturday, January 3, 2015

THE HARDS MAN'S EXTOLS.

I would sit on you  while watching the cattle with their corybantic appetite take you one by one. For me I found pleasure in my cows especially when they finally lay in the shade and  in unison munch whatever it was in between their  jaws with satisfaction.  

In our cordial  relationship I knew very  little of the  language you spoke  with the cows  in the grazing filed but it was almost every evening in the milking shade that  "Chepsitiey"and "Koroit " would speak to me in the language I understand . what has remained in my heart since then is  Chepsityei's extols  about you.

Today Iam full of  praises  knowing that it is you  that got me to where Iam.As an herds boy for  a decade and  for the tender years  in the grazing fields with you I can say a lot about you.     

Today I am marvel at you  grass, your  resilience,beauty,Courage, benevolence and magnanimity. You leave  me mesmerized .You see, you feed the  cows,the  sheep and the Donkeys and all that comes to you but you'll  never be  exhausted. When you become short you  grow again and again.
 
Everyone  loves the  beautiful you  give to their  gardens,beauty that it invites many  to lie on you ,so tenderly soft that they come to take  a nap.

Not even the  sickle will deter your  growth, you will grow beyond your previous predicaments  with the sickle or the  wild fire. You will grow  indiscriminately and cover the ground benevolently.  

Grass ,you face  every day with courage, you courageously face the hailstones,the donkey's hooves and the scorching sun . You may wilt during the day but the night awaits with the beauty of the moon. The morning anticipates you with the dew that  make you wet and fresh.

If only I learned the secrete  of your magnanimity, your source of continuity and generosity  I would make myself like you, to spread kindness and love throughout the plains to the end of the earth . I would have learned the art of resilience that in every day I face,I get renewed  and rejuvenated  

I would at the beginning of every year  like this gather courage enough to face the upsets of life albeit  the many Promises every  tomorrow  holds for me.

Friday, January 2, 2015

MY TWO CENTS ON ALLAN WADI'S APPREHENSION,SENTENCING AND JAILING

I expect something to happen too to those who pour praises to the head of state only that this time it will be something desirable,a visit to statehouse ,a cup of tea ,a hand shake and at least ka something kakuenda kununulia watu chai.I wish Mr Allan Wadi Okeng'o interpreted the words of  Ibn Khaldun  that a person who seeks and desires rank must be obsequious and use flattery as powerful men and rulers require. Otherwise it will be impossible for him to attain any rank.Anyway respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.