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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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Kanjo revenges with clobbery and robbery.

The breaking of glasses and hitting of clubs on the iron walled semi-shops was an indication that vengeance was at the door of both the guilty and the innocent. On Thursday morning the angel of revenge was paying for Monday mistakes. A city council Tax collector had been assaulted on his dirty job by dirty touts and he could not go without the wrath of a few women who sold small vegetables around. Their winning was a moment win.

The curses of the city....


As boys who could retreat when the other ridge was more numbered during a small valley fights, so do combatants. We hardly change- we only grow up. It has happened before in villages and cities where a harassed security personnel is repaid with colossal suffering. Often do the informed shift for a while from an area that has offended a security person.

The coming of city council tax collectors enforcement group to rough up and show the possible harassers that they are unbeaten in a way sounds pathetic. It was not one of the forces portrayed in the Education system but having gone past the village one comes to meet people who are law in themselves. They carried clubs, stones, an axe and a panga. It may indicate the risky job they do like chasing after rowdy prostitutes but unwise to apply such measures.

With an innocent driver clobbered and having the side glass broken, tear gas in the air, discomfort and tension in the area, there are women and men hurt in the chaos. Food and items destroyed. Those who could not run were hurled in the four dark grilled vans either to a legal court or the other one depending on their level of stubbornness. Where will the poor people get money for the hungry courts?

In Kawangware, the grapevine has it that yesterday was their day. They had killed one and the enforcement group dawned on them harshly. They dint care for pedestrians or pleas. They are a force on their own. A force that sometimes need to fight against. And this means that the Kibra Junction boys had been caught off guard. If it happens again, with tipped info, aftermath would be square- a win to the righteous.

Smashed eggs and the equipment during todays ambuish.


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