The Kenyan nation is on the brink of collapse if
the recent barbaric acts meted out on innocent and blameless women are not duly
addressed by concerned authorities through investigation, prosecution and
probably incarcerating some plausible culprits. At least there are videos to
nail the palpable perpetrators of the absolute heinous crimes.
The far we have reached and the gains we have made may be watered down by those
who have resorted to these anomalistic (just coined the word) behaviors if their acts go unchecked and
none pays the ultimate price in the twin acts caught on camera.
These are atrocious felonies and someone should
be held accountable and put behind bars in order to act as a caveat in this
debilitating mob kind of mentality that threatens to erode the fabric of our nation.
If not reined on, these scraps might be a culture that other counties may adopt and our
women will be on the receiving end and at a greater risk from marauding men culpable of acting with rout juvenile delinquency.
No one, and I repeat no one has the moral jurisdiction to
strip naked a woman in public whether she is only dressed in a bikini like a swim
suit model or in habits like those of conservative catholic nuns whose only
body part one can see is the face or the Muslim women who dress in Hijabs that
cover everything and leave no room for drooling men to ogle at the curvy physique of such women.
The recent events where men have resorted to take the law in their own hands is
not only primitive and immoral but unlawful, it should be condemned with the loudest of voice
and even if it takes women coming in solidarity and stripping and walking on
the streets in protest, that would be highly welcome.
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This is the time Maendeleo ya Wanawake should
have called upon all women and rallied them to radically come out to boycott
sex in order to address the appalling conduct of what befell their fellow women on the
streets of our now perilous cities since it looks like no woman without
security is safe.
These awful acts started in Nairobi and quickly caught fire in Mombasa where in
my opinion has female tourists who dress in clothes that barely cover their derriere.
When I watched one of the videos of a woman being mercilessly and callously stripped nude of clothes by busy body men, it was not only painful and shocking but it almost made me
scream out loud, ‘Where are the cops? When did we lose our morals and let it go
to the dogs?’
In one of the videos, an innocent and hapless woman in Mombasa is stripped brutally
as rowdy and unruly men shout, “Vua Nguo! Vua Nguo!” repeatedly. It was despicable
how men could morbidly descend on a woman screaming for mercy as she writhed in agony as insane men ripped he clothes off.
These macabre kind of acts did remind
me of the dark cloud that descended on the nation as a result of the disputed
elections when people went amok and never cared of the other.
For once, I will side women. We are all sired of nees and when a woman is
inhumanly mistreated by men for being viewed to have indecent dressing, then we
are headed in the wrong direction. For heaven’s sake this is the 21 century and
men should not be behaving like savages reminiscent of wild game in pursuit of
prey.
When did the rain start beating us as a nation? Why are we hell bent on making
the nation a statistic with regard to out rightly flouting human rights and internationally
showcasing our incivility to the global community by uploading demeaning videos
on YouTube? As a matter of fact the videos should be pulled down to ensure
those whose rights had been contravened get back the requisite dignity they
deserve as human beings.
Not long ago, most Africans had clothes that barely covered their bodies from
head to toe. One of my history teachers in primary school once intimated a
story that long ago people used to use pelts to cover their crown jewels. Like
in the famous movie, ‘The God’s must be crazy’. Some he said had no ropes and
while walking, they would use the hide to cover their peejays when a person was approaching. When the person was gone, they would cover their behinds if nobody was moving
towards them.
I am strong believer that all irrespective of age, race or sex have the freedom
and right (enshrined in the constitution) to put on as he or she finds pleasurable whether it pleases another
partly or not. There are no prescriptions on how to dress as long as one is not
birthday suit. Let’s be realistic, what is descent to another may not be palatable
to another. In fact Kenya has no national attire that defines us as a citizen.
Some times back while still a teenager, I saw productive efforts being made in
coming up with a regalia that could be synonymous to Kenya as the ‘agbada’ is
to some West African nations. It was an effort in futility as the then culture
minister did not give the necessary moral support to actuate the idea that had
been hatched and was of age.
SITUONANE.
SITUONANE.
