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Luanda Reggae Defenders - what is your long term agenda?

Luanda Reggae Defenders is a now a popular movement with roots in Vihiga and border Siaya and Kakamega counties Attention is brought to the manner and conduct the movement has gained fame and followers, mainly the Youths. The movement capitalizes on funerals. With a poor culture of putting the dead to rest, the Reggae Defenders have taken it by storm and rebranded the infamous ‘Disco Matanga’ – disco at funeral. Reggae Defenders on move. Pic: Charles Rankings: Facebook They mobilize quickly on the day the dead will be discharged from the mortuary. They have this huge old school sound system that is over buzzing to no clear reggae song - that they hire a pickup to carry - and it has a young DJ mainly standing there than mixing anything. Often, against the rules, the casket is grabbed from a hearse vehicle and tied to a motorbike. There it will be swayed and jerk breaked between other motorbikes on the narrow roads. That, is, how a fellow soldier, often a young dead, is mourned. ...
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Saying #15

-Ridiku rindi urigota nzira -
(Translation; some day else you will lose the road)
Gavezaa mundu niyakanyora amaa agirung'ana. Niyaraa  mutevi wa mang'ana agwa agamanya. Niyaraa mwangu, ariduha. Vandu kuri venavo mavakubirwaa rugano yiru.
Siriridukaku ridiku riu mundu anyara kwinaza nokovora siyenyaa vokonyi vwa vandi. Ni kuri kumanya inzira izizaa havundu nareve. Rwu umaa uturi nogeronda ma uhuriri matava imbiri nirwo rwu mundu mugeri amaa ateva inzira yindi. Inziriyi inyara kuva runyasi rwu vurwaye, rikora mima noho rienya kumanya.
Vurahi nevoveeho sigenyaa mundu yiviriri vamukonyaa rwa yari namadiva. Genyekaa muzing'inga ziosi mundu yegehizi. Noveye navio noho nuvura wiviki mu riva riukwehozeriza kijira ganyara kugwa madinyu ing'inga yosi.
Kari nataveye mundu wu wagosera, imima jijo jirokee ku vandu vanyingi. Unyara kwiharara uzie ihare nirisuvira si umanyikani mba. Rwa mumanani uyu azizaa kwenya vokonyi nareve anyora nuvudinyu kijira rwa yakonyeka yagirung'ana nachaya vamukonyaa.

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