it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.
Honestly, if he dished out 300k on the 1st date, I'd give back the money and block him.
My experience in business has taught me that no hardworking kenyan of any gender dishes out money just like that.
That's money that comes with iron cables attached. Or, its crime money.. and that's potentially setting myself up with a criminal.
I don't want to know the price, I'm not willing to pay it.
If you have ever been car jacked, whether while using a PSV or private means, then you know car jackers are merciless and a bunch of people destined to hell whichever way possible.
Antony Ochieng was a car jacker.
WE have heard the story of what has happened to him while in the hands of the Police.
What WE are yet to hear is the story of his victims while he was in charge.
For the record, I am glad Antony Ochieng is dead. Given the opportunity, I would have killed him myself whether I would be the Police or his victim or neither.
I have been car jacked once in a PSV. That was at 1706 hours on Sunday 5 May 2013 along Outering Road. I was discovered unconscious by GSU Officers manning the gate at the North Airport Road. I had to undergo surgery thus moved all the way from Embakasi to AAR 4th Ngong Avenue. It took me 14 months to settle that bill. But to this day, I still bear the deep mark inflicted by a sharp metallic object on the back of my head (kisogo). It does not pain. It does interfere with my life. It's does affect my brain. But whenever I go for a hair cut, it is a constant reminder of what happened to me on Sunday 5 May 2013.
Interestingly, I only had KES 200 with which I was to get to town, buy supper, then head to UON Halls of Residence.
I was sober. I didn't present any resistance. I was not even the target. The lady next to me was. And the car jackers were just after her KES 200,000. She did not live to see Monday 6 May 2013.
The car jackers took our money, phones, ATM cards, ID cards, watches, earrings, wallets, trousers and skirts (we were left with above the groin wear), matatu keys, and slashed the tires. We thought incapacitating us was enough. Then they turned on us. They beat us mercilessly and left most of us unconscious. The lady got the bullet.
So, I lived to tell my experience.
Maybe, some or most of Antony Ochieng's victims will never get that opportunity.
Crime doesn't pay.
WE SHALL all die. WE are headed there anyway. But Antony Ochieng has gone before us. And, Kenya is less 1 car jaker.
^MP 🎗️ 🇰🇪
As a nation, we have to make a decision about our future. Let politicians politic, but as Kenyans let us decide that we shall regain control of our future.
Things can't continue like this.
Bwana there is just fear everywhere…but a bold new generation must rise up and reclaim their country. This is why we continue to preach the values in the preamble of our Constitution, most importantly, freedom. I thank the Governor, Students Association Karen Campus, Graham Mboya, for the invitation. I’ll be returning the courtesy by inviting you and your fellow students to the Senate tukitoka mashinani so that the conversation can continue. God bless!