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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. ...

Isuzi ihii, hambi komege.

-Megeri ku mondere mu kihinda 
-Waaah kusambaziriku
-Yiri irideka ria girigari? 
-Ororandi ni kwiga kodeka kari inze endegereree kuria 
-Ororogori nurudinyu,"hambi kuragiri ni suzi"????
-Utuchima tukavee hayi?
-Ivi ohenge uragwa nosekaa...
-Waree, ni ndio vadekaa isuzi? 
-Gafwanaa manyanye!
-Isuzu yene yakanyora i accident noho?
-Magu umunwa gwe isuzu zana!
-Uvirizi vurahi
-Uvichimu maguta da?
-Waaaah, megeraku!
-Ehenzaa vandu
-Eyo inzi ku mba! sande
-Meda amazi gu vuchima
-Umanyi kodeka isuzi daa ifwanaa vuvi!
-Mbura wareti komesa na mbee nzeng'ine mamare daa
-Ogeheeku kakereka kweri? 
-Yene yeyo mba, ifana vudamanu!
-Yivi uturizaa hai isuzi ni izara inumaa?
-Reka nzisave nzisundi ashimbi 
-Magu Sia amate ngatonyiaa
-Ororaa ku sia ekori munwa?
-Ndayera!

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