Cosmos,
This is a serious matter where the disadvantages have no other choice
or alternative to gate food to feed children and for survival. Kindly
look at it in those lines.
I believe there are many more in this category. This is as a result
of bad planning, where the poor suffer in silence, but, solution can
be found if people begin to engage constructively..........
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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On Sun, 6/22/14, Cosmos Omondi <omondi.cosmos@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [PK] Knut's Wilson Sossion tells Raila Odinga to abandon political rallies for the sake of peace
To: "progressive-kenyans" <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 3:47 PM
Judy,
Does your
muzee (if you have any) force you to have sex with
him? I hope not, but only when you're
willing.
On 22 June 2014 22:05,
'Judy Miriga' via Progressive Kenyans <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>
wrote:
Good People,
Additionally..........
What is more sad is a must for Sex in exchange for fish
(food) and
others are calling for Saba Saba. So how many sex must one
have to
have enough and sustainable food supply.....??? God have
Mercy !
This calls for Divine intervention people!!!!! This is not
how God
intended life to be. Life must not be this way, it is
getting from
bad to worse .....it is unacceptable......and I am deeply
troubled.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Knut's Wilson Sossion tells Raila Odinga to abandon
political rallies for the sake of peace
By ONESMUS NZIOKA
Updated Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 14:51 GMT +3
Makueni, Kenya: Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut)
Secretary General Wilson Sossion now wants CORD leader Raila
Odinga and his team to abandon the planned country wide
political rallies to avoid plunging the country in a
bloodbath.
Speaking at Sultan Hamud Primary school, Kilome when he
presided over the regional education day Saturday, Sossion
asked Odinga to scale down his political activities and
pursue Dialogue through the established forums and
institutions to avoid more tensions.
"When at one time I was leading a teachers strike, my
brother Raila Odinga asked me not to pursue that route if a
solution was to be found. Now I ask him as a senior citizen
and statesman, he should scale down his political activities
in the country and find other ways of pushing for a Dialogue
for the sake of the children and citizens of this
country," said Sossion.
"Kenyans can talk and there are forums and institutions
that can amply facilitate that. We think this is an
alternative route that should be taken if we are to stop
creating more tensions and ethnic wars in the country. This
is not the time for such if we all know what happened in
1992, 1997, and in 2008. We had lost the country in 2008
only to be rescued by the International Community and
personally I would never wish to see Kenya walk that route
again," said the Secretary General.
Sossion said some leaflets seen in Nakuru carrying hatred
messages is a virus that can spread any time and spark off
ethnic wars, warning leaders to take it as a cue that should
push them more to the table for talks as one way of giving
Kenyans an opportunity to enjoy their hard earned
freedom.
And without mentioning names, Sossion said the Lamu
terrorist attacks were not the work of Al Shabaab
insurgents, but the work of local terror syndicates
bordering on ethnic cleansing.
See also: Nobody gains anything from genocide or
bloodletting
"I want to believe the Government's position that
the perpetrators of Mpeketoni attacks are not the said Al
Shabaab terrorists but local syndicates with political
interests, bordering on ethnic cleansing," he said.
He said a teacher and a pupil were killed in the attacks and
he was feeling compelled to speak for the children of this
country who have often been exposed to heinous atrocities,
nipping in the bud their promising future lives.
Sossion criticised the government for allocating colossal
sums of money to security and other not so much priority
areas above education, saying education is the key to ending
the insecurity problems in the country.
"The country would not need to invest heavily in
security if quality education had been given priority.
Education is the key security against insecurity. Security
in this country will only be achieved if we improve the
quality of education for our learners and prepare them for
serious nation building," he said.
He said KNUT has kicked off a campaign to unite all the
stake holders in the education sector and that in less than
two years, Kenya will have a single union of teachers from
Nursery to University.
Sossion said it is high time the education Cabinet Secretary
Jacob Kaimenyi listened to the union's advocacy lest he
be swept by its strong currents.
"The top Government education management should throw
out blame games over the radical changes needed in the
sector. What is wrong if I sit with Kaimenyi and tell him
what needs to be done. That more teachers should be employed
and paid well. By doing so I will not reduce him to a lesser
man if he agrees to talk with KNUT," He said.
Among the radical changes Sossion said the Union is pushing
for include waiving of examination fees for KCPE and KCSE
candidates beginning next year, employment of 100,000
teachers, lowering the per class teacher-pupil ration to
1:35, reducing the number of lessons taught by teachers per
week to 35 for primary teachers and 27 for secondary
teachers.
He said this is possible if the government reduces
corruption and wasteful expenditures rampant in the
system.
http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000125677/sossion-tells-raila-to-abandon-political-rallies-for-the-sake-of-peace
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Nobody gains anything from genocide or bloodletting
By Kethi Kilonzo
Updated Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 12:12 GMT +3
Kenya: They speak the same mother tongue. And share a common
past. This was not enough to unite them or guarantee
tolerated co-existence. One day they turned on each other.
And things have never been the same again. They were
separated only by wealth. The haves and the have-nots. One
could change from one class to another through marriage or
by acquiring wealth. The elite were the minority. The
have-nots, the majority.
During the colonial era identity cards were introduced. This
system permanently classified them into two groups. Members
of the elite were given leadership roles by the colonial
government. When the country gained independence the
colonialists put the minority in charge of government.
Resentment and animosity between the two groups festered for
decades.
On 6th April 1994 a plane was shot down. Everyone on board,
including the President, died. The next day the country went
up in flames. By July 1994 nearly a 1,000,000 had died. Most
were slaughtered, in their homes, villages, or towns, by
their friends and neighbours.
It was called the "final solution". The decision to get
rid of all members of the elite was not made in 1994. It was
made years before. In 1990 the army started supplying
civilians with hand weapons.
The youth of the majority group were trained by the army in
combat. These actions were defended by the army and the
government as programmes for 'civil defence'. These are
the weapons and combat tactics used in 1994 to try and
exterminate the elite group.
No one was spared the violence. Those members of the
majority who refused to kill were killed. "Massacre or be
massacred" was the motto. Men, women, children, even
babies were murdered.
Since bullets were 'expensive', most were killed by
machetes, knives or clubs. Some victims were given the
option of paying for a bullet to have a quicker death.
One of the worst massacres took place between April 15 and
16, 1994 in a Catholic Church, located in a town 60 miles
from the capital of the country. The Mayor, who belonged to
the majority group, encouraged members of the elite to hide
inside the church by assuring them they would be safe there.
Then he betrayed them.
The killing at the church began with grenades and guns, but
soon changed to machetes and clubs. Killing by hand was
tiresome, so the killers took shifts. It took two days to
kill the thousands inside.
During the violence hundreds of patients from hospitals
suffering from Aids, were released and formed into "rape
squads".
Women of the elite group were targeted with the intention of
permanently rendering them incapable of bearing children.
The violence had a lasting and profound impact.
A spike in HIV infection. Newborn children, conceived not
from mutual consent, but from the widespread rape. Orphaned
children and widows became the heads of many homes. A
drastic drop in the population. Millions of refugees. To
date some refugees haven't returned home.
This violence created the impetus for setting up the
International Criminal Court (ICC) as a permanent court.
Before the conflict individuals were tried in ad hoc
tribunals. Did any of the groups win the war? Or achieve any
prize from it? No. Everyone lost.
They all continue to pay the price today; as they will for
generations to come.
Their tolerant co-existence and a fresh attempt towards just
and equitable sharing of resources came at the price of
1,000,000 lives and many more living-dead.
http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000125662/nobody-gains-anything-from-genocide-or-bloodletting?articleID=2000125662&story_title=nobody-gains-anything-from-genocide-or-bloodletting&pageNo=1
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Sex-for-fish: the barter trade that is synonymous to Lake
Victoria's Sori beach
Stephen Yiembe June 04, 2014 Share this story:
Sori beach, along the source of Lake Victoria in South
Nyanza erupts into activity when the boats arrive bringing
in their catch. Female fishmongers scramble along the beach
to buy fish, shouting their names out to get the attention
of the fishermen and cartels (jo achumbo) that control the
trade.
Rose Achieng, a 17-year old standard six drop out is among
the jostling fishmongers. She is dressed in a conspicuous
mini-skirt and a short blouse that strains to cover her
umbilical cord. Her hair is neatly plaited making her easy
to notice.
"I don't sell fish but my aunt does, she is aged and
that is why I a company her to get fish without serious
struggle. We earn a living from the sales of this precious
commodity," she says.
Her aunt, Lucia Nyongudi, who is well known at the beach as
"Nyaber" the beautiful lady, is a veteran in the
industry whose reign has been wiped by the hands of clock.
Her beauty is hardly noticed by the young and energetic
fishermen and it's the reason she brings Rose with her as
an inducement to the fishermen to handover the best of their
catch for fewer amounts in good faith.
It is well known that fishing is the economic activity of
the river lake Nilotes since ancient days. A new trend
referred to as 'jaboya' where a fishmonger and fisherman
indulge in sex is sky rocketing along the beaches in
Nyanza.
The dubious barter trade is the only way for fish traders to
comfortably live their dream lives. Stiff competition for a
catch that is less than plentiful means offering their own
bodies is not enough , so the traders have decided to make
available their underage girls and in most cases their
desperate relatives.
Awiko Kokoth is one of the youthful fishermen well known by
his folks and business comrades as "Jahom" (that loosely
translates to a person from home area) brags how he has
dumped his 54-year-old "girlfriend" and today grooves
with more than three girls comfortably. "Despite the fact
that I was orphaned at a tender age and suffered a lot at
Nyakach - my ancestral home, I can now live my dream. I can
get my daily meals, clothe myself and even make sure that my
sweethearts (girlfriends) are well dressed and eat well".
Says Awiko as he takes his final puff of 'ombitho'
marijuana in a broad day light.
"I have been having unprotected sex with different
fishermen and their beach leaders for the last eight years
since I dropped out of school in 2005. My parents passed
away in the same year and my younger brother and I had no
one to turn to, the only solution was him to go and look
after some village tycoons cattle as I entered this field. I
knew what men want and I was ready to exchange it with
money. Wearing short skirts or tight trousers doesn't cost
much and I was ready for easy and fast cash. I'm still in
the field despite losing some of my lady friends and
clients," Says Rita in a broad smile.
She admits doing the deadly business but when asked about
her H.I.V status, she replies "what one doesn't know
can't hurt".
A conversation with one of the beach leaders and an official
from a nearby VCT and VMMC centre run by a local NGO reveals
a lot. The beach leader nicknamed 'Jakom' shares how
fishermen prefer pleasure from sexual intercourse with young
girls. They don't care about protecting themselves and can
only do so if a new 'catch' insists which is very
rare.
On the other hand, the VCT officer bitterly narrates how
most of the youths from the area including school going ones
call themselves "bulls" after undergoing circumcision
and engage in sex with any woman that comes across including
the old.
He warns that the generation might be wiped out by the
deadly disease (HIV) unless the government intervenes and
starts HIV/ AIDS programme with local youth groups targeting
all participants in the act.
My take: Kerosene has never been used anywhere under the sun
to put off fire! Instead of distributing free condoms in
such areas, serious campaign against the "fish for sex"
trade and HIV/ AIDS is long overdue.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ureport/story/2000125229/sex-for-fish-the-barter-trade-that-is-synonymous-to-lake-victoria-s-sori-beach/
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