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.
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| Smashed eggs and the equipment during todays ambuish. |
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