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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