They say that every cloud has a silver lining, and from last weeks horror stories, we can glean some positives; 1).Take the case of the house help who brutalised a two year old baby that it is even a miracle that the angel is still alive to date . If it werent for the installation of a CCTV camera, I am sure the parents and the rest of us wouldnt have known what had befallen that baby had she gotten fatal injuries (just to torture us parents who require the services of those house helps, some souls have had the audacity of sending me almost 20 unsolicited forwards of that horror video on my WhatsApp). What the video has made us learn is the advantage of having your own CCTVs installed in your house. When you come home in the evening, you can flip through the recording of what happened throughout the day in your house. Big Brother, will play a supervisory role, and give you the peace of mind that your angel is well taken care of. It will also reduce the case of pilfering by all kinds of workers in the homestead. You will notice which thieving worker has stolen a chicken almost immediately, instead of waking up one morning after a month and realising 100 of your chicken are missing and none can give you answers where they disappeared to. The good news is a CCTV is low technology and the cost is from just 10k.If your TV or fridge is more expensive than that, what will prevent you from installing one?. 2).The Mandera massacre was something very unfortunate for this country. However, it has lead to some positives. Imagine about 15k civil servants who have been fighting to get transferred from those godforsaken arid north are now going to get their wishes come true thanks to the doctors union and KNUT. Once the unions say that their members cant go back due to insecurity, the government has got no option other than to deploy those workers in stations of their choices as we saw in 2008 during the post election. Then, come January, Schools and hospitals in northern Kenya will be without workers. Now that is where you come in if you have a certificate or degree and are unemployed. At least over 15k vacancies will be announced and if I were you, that is the place I will rush to. Your reasoning should be, out of 15000 people working in Al Shabaab northern Kenya for all those years, only 28 were killed. Your odds of being killed by Al Shabaab are almost equivalent to the likelihood that you will die of Ebola. Plus those Wariahs will have learnt their lesson and wont touch another civil servants again. Surely they want their children to learn how to speak English and Kiswahili so that after class 8,they can come up country to hawk those Chinese watches and phones . 3.),.For the ladies, it is unfortunate that some men are determining how you dress lest they strip and molest you in public. I agree with you that those men are primitive and are living in stone age, but then what can we do about them except rant in Kilimani mums?. The fact is, ours is a backward society in which we are still lynching witches. Our policemen are equally backward and would most probably participate in your stripping. The honourable thing to do is wear what the society demands in public.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:03:37 +0000