A lion was killed earlier today
by a Kenya Wildlife Service officer in Isinya. It had threatened the life of
one motor cycler by pawing him. Residents got exited and alerted the nearest
office which responded by sending men in uniform, loaded with guns (not
tranquilizer). The only difference between them and the chanting crowd was the
killer weapons they carried.
A human being is one of the
coward most animals in the animalia strata. His folly is the world’s best
mockery of his capacity. He got the brains to think otherwise. He would be
threatened by his dreams, wishes, surroundings, faith, climate and media long
before other animals experience that. Next time you meet the courageous of men,
remember this.
Africans who suffer from slavery
and conquest thrills of the last century say that history is written by the conqueror. Who
remembers the enslaved? Will a lion stand in court tomorrow with the next
cubicle hosting the man who sprawled the bullets? Lions belong to the A-WA
phonetic in Swahili language. An animal is not an ‘it’. Analogy gives more
similarities than differences. We are therefore one.
George Monbiot writes that recent
before we clocked half of the previous century Maasai and other pastoral
communities had long roamed the best grassland which were later jurisdivided to
Kenya and Tanzania. They co-existed for as long as civilization can be dated
back to the start of pastoralism. He goes on to say how with the up come of
protected environments has the community lost its touch, friendship, symbiosm and
sacredness with the wild. Where your ancestor set his foot freely during the
dry season is prior to prosecution or death for trespassing.
We have denied that human
population is not a threat and climatic change likewise. At the same time,
rivers run dark- brown full of raw sewage. The trees are being replaced by skyscrapers.
A man with a cigar took hold of his power saw along Ngong road to fell a tree
that he did not stop to ask whether it is older than him. The road blows with dust now as we wait for
its expansion. Rongai, Kileleshwa and Kajiado among others composed the niches
to these carnivores. Presently plots are being sold at a heaven-going rate.
It does not surprise me that
things are hard and anything lesser than human is receiving the worst share in
the bureaucracy. Life of Pi is a book
that writes we live with so many wild animals than there are in the parks. They
are peaceful. When Nairobi Park will be fenced, the carnivores will work out
the herbivores. With continued corruption, they will starve later. With many
herbivores as in Nakuru, the grasslands will be exhausted. It will be the beginning
of Good Dinousar (Lion) Part 2.
Being a Christian or Muslim one
may think that animals got no souls. They do. They sleep, eat, hunt and excrete
which is your main occupation. Of course they do not know how to read because
you do not know what they say in their roaring.
Never regard yourself superior to any
animal if you have degraded to the level of killing it. Protect it (and yourself) with all
your means that if you should kill one animal, it should have killed two
humans.
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