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Chahilu history in Lulogooli : Gaa kale gaa Chahilu (1942-2025)

Bernard Philimona Chahilu 1942-2025  Liivulwa Mukuluundu Bernard Philemon Chahilu yivulwa muhiga gwa 1942 mweli gwa kavili guvee sita (6/2/1942). Nu mwana wa Elam Kilago na maama Jelida Modani ma vosi vaakuza. Nu muyaayi Mukizuungu Mudidi mwifwa Mumasiingila Muvisonye. Yiivulwa muyaayi munifu mulidaala lye Gaigedi, Gaigedi logongo, Wodanga Lusoma, Sabatia Sub-county, Vihiga County. Kuviikilwa makono. Yaaviikilwa ku makono no mwilwazi Daudi Kadenge muhiga gwa 1942 mulidaala lie Gavudia mulivugaana lia Valina. (Friends Church). Likevwa Yaakevwa muhiga gwa 1952 kekevo chalaangwa Silula. Lisooma Yaataangila lisooma lilie ha Gaigedi masoomo go muluguki. Yaamanya niazya Gahumbwa Primary muhiga gwa 1955 mukilaasi kia kavaga. Yaakola ligela lia vaalaanga C.E.E. (Common Entrance Exam) muhiga gwa 1956 ha Gahumbwa. Muhiga gwa 1957 yaazya kusooma mukilaasi cha kataano ha Kericho Township School. Muhiga gwa 1958 yaazya kusooma ha Kigama Intermediate mukilaasi cha siita niakolela ho ligela liala...

Must we trade both on the dying and the dead, Dr?

We do not have enough money to help us get our sleeping boy from Kenyatta Hospital Morgue. They are debting us Ksh 400,000 and more. It increased today. If we pay about 75%, they say that they will allow us take him out- but some of us will part with identification cards.

I am not writing this so that we contribute some money. That is indirect thievery.

My father works for a company in Industrial Area. His NHIF medical card can not be accepted in hospitals away from that which his company is registered with. He has no enough to knock the offices of leading insurance firms. He got sick and we had it tough. Can't there be systems to make sure that the average man lives  a better life? If he gets sick in the rural sides and the hospital has no branch there we have to ferry him.

Back to our boy. His father is one of my friends;guard whose salary is a matter of the arrow roots and vegetables he grows on the small land in the primary school.To him the cash is but a dream and wonders how. But he cannot throw away his child- his tradition does not allow. He must see to a way that he will have the money if it means slicing a piece of his rural small share.

Something is wrong here. Can't the society itself see to such? Must the doctors be paid, must he lose a share, must the morgue attendants refill their perfume bottles? Must we pay to get the body of our own? Must a human pinch another? Oh, wait. We are still evolving.

Picture Source: Gado.

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