So, the other day, well not really the other day but
a few days ago there was an explosion in Eastleigh, which for those of you who
have just landed from the diaspora (Uganda too) is a residential area near
Nairobi.
It’s funny how someone who left Kenya in 2008 asks
you who Eastleigh is, really? Are you seriously asking who? Story for a
different day.
I use residential loosely here because that area is
the hood of all hoods. It is where you can buy anything, think of something,
yes you can buy it in Eastleigh. So, there was a blast in an eatery that
claimed six lives. My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones or got
injured in the incident.
When I heard about it, all I could think was ooh
okay. Yes, just an ‘ooh okay’. And before you go all judgmental on me, let me
tell you why. Blasts and explosions and gun maniacs spraying people with bullets
has become such recurrent occurrences that you almost don’t flinch on the news
of one. The reason is this has stopped being news anymore.
The irony of this specific attack was that it
happened in the middle and at the heart of a ruthless police crackdown on
suspected terrorists. I cannot believe this country and the government today.
If the police had sat in their barracks over a card of games, they would have
saved face.
I have always doubted that our security forces do
much except listening to their leaders bickering but now, I am positive. I do
not blame them; a demotivated worker is a none-productive worker. Those tins police
officers live in cannot motivate anyone to wake up in the morning and go to
work. The Kenyan governments, previous and current have failed this country in
different ways but security can never and should never be a matter of ‘ooh
okay’. No, we refuse to be afraid of our shadows and wary of our own selves. We
refuse to lose appetites and run thin sweats in July weather due to compromised
security, it is immoral for a government to let people cow under bullet
riddling suicidal maniacs.
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