Drama as Man Walks out of Dowry
Ceremony in Murang'a Citing Extortion and Unnecessary Fines.
John paid Ksh 40,000 to cater for food, tents, chairs and a public address system. He was also made to set aside Ksh 60,000 to pay his bride price that the two families had agreed on.
Having impregnated the girl, John was told to add Ksh20,000 to the bride price. He was slapped with a Ksh10,000 fine for making a detour to the wrong path and ended up into a different homestead instead of the girls'. Having gotten late a little bit, he was told to pay Ksh 5,000 to appease the elders who had tired waiting for his Arrival.
Drama, however, ensued when twelve girls were paraded in a line, in front of him covered in loose lesos from head to toe and John was asked to guess who his fiancรฉe was. John Pointed to the wrong woman, leading to yet another fine of Ksh 20,000.
The decisive moment, specifically, was when elders demanded Ksh 500,000, used on the girl's school fees and childhood upkeep.
Fumed with anger, a furious John excused himself to visit a nearby latrine and left.
He switched off his phone and was last seen in a matatu headed to Nairobi CBD.
Hi @thisafricangirl , you have made allegations, based on what you call "research", that @RailaOdinga was bought by Kibaki in 2002 and that is why he supported him in that election.
My work is to educate you and your ilk, who try to rewrite history in order to mask your ethnic prejudices and bad electoral choices. You voted William Ruto, but now your problem is that Raila is in good terms with him! The nerve.
Anyway, here we go...
I am certain that your shallow research hasn't yet enlightened you to the fact that the NARC-Rainbow Coalition which brought Kibaki to power was a creation of the one and only Raila Odinga. While Kibaki, @mamangilu and Wamalwa Kijana, all of National Alliance Kenya (NAK), held endless hotel meetings which Moi derogatorily dismissed as "too much tea over nothing", it took Raila's leaving Kanu and uniting everyone under the Rainbow movement, for the opposition to be strong enough to actually challenge Moi.
Now, if anyone had money to buy Raila, and if the latter had been up for sale, the people who had money were the Kanu side running Uhuru Kenyatta for President. But why did Raila need to be bought when everyone acknowledged at that time that he was both the brains behind NARC-Rainbow, as well as the single uniting power behind the movement?
You need to find the video of Kibaki's cardiologist, Dr Gikonyo, giving an interesting anecdote, for context. Gikonyo has confessed many times that after Kibaki was injured in the accident and was being flown to hospital in London, Raila walked into the flight and found that Kibaki was to be flown in Economy, despite all his injuries. Apparently the issue was money. Raila then mobilised a few people to carry Kibaki to Business, before proceeding to swipe his own card to pay for the sick Kibaki's upgrade. So Kibaki had money to buy Raila, but not enough to spend on his own treatment and travel comfort, while carrying life-threatening injuries? Which shallow philosophy is that?
Let us talk about the Nyachae deal. It is public knowledge that immediately after the agreement, as Raila left Nyachae's house, the latter made a comment to his close associates that since they both came from Nyanza, he would not be honouring Raila's desire to be Prime Minister if he won. Someone immediately alerted Raila, who, quite rightfully, decided to trash the agreement. But even before that, common sense and intelligence calculations already indicated that the best way to neutralise Uhuru and Kanu was for the opposition to run a Kikuyu candidate. The choice narrowed down to Kibaki or George Muthengi Saitoti. But Saitoti had only recently left Kanu and was still unwelcome as a national opposition candidate. Kibaki was the more sensible option.
People like you @thisafricangirl dwell in the pit of ignorance and shallow sloganeering, where unchallenged defamation thrives. There is no research that can change historical facts. And the fact, acknowledged by everyone except you historical dwarfs, is that Raila delivered the presidency to Kibaki in 2002 and was thanked with donkey kicks. But obviously, your biggest issue is that you think Raila should hate people on your behalf and carry your bitterness at nearly 80 years of age. You have already fashioned yourself as a young leader. What gripe then do you still have with someone whose best days, according to you, are in the past?
I join those who have pointed out that your research should focus on that Uasin Gishu scholarship scandal. It is inconceivable that you can be an expert in national politics but have no ability to remedy local village challenges among your people. Besides, you and the shallow revolutionaries without a cause will not trivialise the works of the country's foremost statesman while we history guards are still here!
Hi @thisafricangirl , you have made allegations, based on what you call "research", that @RailaOdinga was bought by Kibaki in 2002 and that is why he supported him in that election.
My work is to educate you and your ilk, who try to rewrite history in order to mask your ethnic prejudices and bad electoral choices. You voted William Ruto, but now your problem is that Raila is in good terms with him! The nerve.
Anyway, here we go...
I am certain that your shallow research hasn't yet enlightened you to the fact that the NARC-Rainbow Coalition which brought Kibaki to power was a creation of the one and only Raila Odinga. While Kibaki, @mamangilu and Wamalwa Kijana, all of National Alliance Kenya (NAK), held endless hotel meetings which Moi derogatorily dismissed as "too much tea over nothing", it took Raila's leaving Kanu and uniting everyone under the Rainbow movement, for the opposition to be strong enough to actually challenge Moi.
Now, if anyone had money to buy Raila, and if the latter had been up for sale, the people who had money were the Kanu side running Uhuru Kenyatta for President. But why did Raila need to be bought when everyone acknowledged at that time that he was both the brains behind NARC-Rainbow, as well as the single uniting power behind the movement?
You need to find the video of Kibaki's cardiologist, Dr Gikonyo, giving an interesting anecdote, for context. Gikonyo has confessed many times that after Kibaki was injured in the accident and was being flown to hospital in London, Raila walked into the flight and found that Kibaki was to be flown in Economy, despite all his injuries. Apparently the issue was money. Raila then mobilised a few people to carry Kibaki to Business, before proceeding to swipe his own card to pay for the sick Kibaki's upgrade. So Kibaki had money to buy Raila, but not enough to spend on his own treatment and travel comfort, while carrying life-threatening injuries? Which shallow philosophy is that?
Let us talk about the Nyachae deal. It is public knowledge that immediately after the agreement, as Raila left Nyachae's house, the latter made a comment to his close associates that since they both came from Nyanza, he would not be honouring Raila's desire to be Prime Minister if he won. Someone immediately alerted Raila, who, quite rightfully, decided to trash the agreement. But even before that, common sense and intelligence calculations already indicated that the best way to neutralise Uhuru and Kanu was for the opposition to run a Kikuyu candidate. The choice narrowed down to Kibaki or George Muthengi Saitoti. But Saitoti had only recently left Kanu and was still unwelcome as a national opposition candidate. Kibaki was the more sensible option.
People like you @thisafricangirl dwell in the pit of ignorance and shallow sloganeering, where unchallenged defamation thrives. There is no research that can change historical facts. And the fact, acknowledged by everyone except you historical dwarfs, is that Raila delivered the presidency to Kibaki in 2002 and was thanked with donkey kicks. But obviously, your biggest issue is that you think Raila should hate people on your behalf and carry your bitterness at nearly 80 years of age. You have already fashioned yourself as a young leader. What gripe then do you still have with someone whose best days, according to you, are in the past?
I join those who have pointed out that your research should focus on that Uasin Gishu scholarship scandal. It is inconceivable that you can be an expert in national politics but have no ability to remedy local village challenges among your people. Besides, you and the shallow revolutionaries without a cause will not trivialise the works of the country's foremost statesman while we history guards are still here!