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BYE BYE SEPTEMBER

I cannot remember last time when the longest Month gripped us as September did. Our INNOCENT leaders were tortured at the annals of the Hague, while here at home lives were lost and the shilling was not doing good with the Dollar.



It all started at the beginning of the month when innocent hustlers at Mukuru Sinai, who wanted to contribute towards national building were burned into ashes. this people were not just risking their lives or not heeding to the countless warnings of staying away from danger zones. This were tax payers just like you and I who seeing how there tax money was being washed away by water decided to take measures to cut on the loss. May their souls rest in peace.

This murderous September instinct having shown its brutality at Sinai, it decided to pop its head on roads. The tales were devastating. It showed that it could and it can. The government had to return to the Alcoblow, maybe it will work, who knows?

What amazes me is why nobody realizes that our roads have no road signs! Don't think about that drivers are supposed to know.

Then tearfully and sorrowfully, without any discernible warning, in a ward at Nairobi hospital, with the last gasp of breath of the serene air she tried to clean, died Prof. Wangari Maathai. An environmentalist, activist, Mother, and a true warrior found no strength Left in her to fight the ugly death.

Though gone to glory. She stands out as a true African woman, an embodiment of dedication and courage seen in none. she was not a cockatoo like a majority of our politicians, she was a actor, a doer. Congratulation for a life well lived.

BYE September, BYE PROF. MAATHAI





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