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Clemens

Clemens

Elder Lister
Due to the nature of my job, I have had the pleasure of working and living in different parts of our great republic, at an interval of 2 years per posting for the last 12 years, I have crisscrossed three different regions and there is an observation I have made, it's not cast on stone but, as a partaker of the frothy ruaraka stuff(RIP Whispers) your tipple is generally safe from spiking, if you are living away from the international trunk road, major towns and areas west of Nakuru, North of isiolo, south of Kiambu and east of Machakos. The same places your luggage doesn't need hawk-eyed alertness. It's all about socialisation according to Dr (now a Prof) Njeru.

The other areas are not safe, it's only that they are a decade or two away from being the same as the red zone, judging by the petty crime by youths in the area, disappearing goats and mabuons and maize harvested at night, can we change before it's too late? We are a society that perceives virtues as weakness and flaws, that needs to change as a matter of urgency.
 
Been to places where the 10% rule in all recruitment is something locals can float about proudly, and they then whine about the "hard times" where they are equal to all other Kenyans.
Mark you Kimaiyo wasn't elected in his home SubCounty since he let his 'Christian virtues'(whatever that is) get between him and his ensuring enmass recruitment of his kin into the service. We live in an entitled world.
 
The growth of vices directly correlates with cultural bleaching. The process is 100% complete among shiny-eyes, where taboos no longer exist. The only thing that has prevented them from regressing to wildlife-like status is education and religion. Other communities are in different stages of catching up. It turns out worse when the lost culture is not somehow replaced with religiosity and education.
 
Clemens said:
The parents believe that it's the responsibility of government, to discipline their kids. Ask @Pamba 1 the request he gets to keep errant kids in cells so that they can go to school and the likes.
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Kweli iki problem, once you reach a point of taking your kid to the cops, you have terribly failed at parenting. A bit contradicting because I know a few guys who grew up in very good families but went the opposite direction, wezi, walevi, bangi... Shida tupu
 
Clemens said:
Due to the nature of my job, I have had the pleasure of working and living in different parts of our great republic, at an interval of 2 years per posting for the last 12 years, I have crisscrossed three different regions and there is an observation I have made, it's not cast on stone but, as a partaker of the frothy ruaraka stuff(RIP Whispers) your tipple is generally safe from spiking, if you are living away from the international trunk road, major towns and areas west of Nakuru, North of isiolo, south of Kiambu and east of Machakos. The same places your luggage doesn't need hawk-eyed alertness. It's all about socialisation according to Dr (now a Prof) Njeru.

The other areas are not safe, it's only that they are a decade or two away from being the same as the red zone, judging by the petty crime by youths in the area, disappearing goats and mabuons and maize harvested at night, can we change before it's too late? We are a society that perceives virtues as weakness and flaws, that needs to change as a matter of urgency.
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In a Mandera hotel, the skiny manager told us tusiwe na wasiwasi with our valuables in the rooms, qualified it with, hakuna wakristo hapa!
 
It's Me Scumbag said:
Discovery; @Clemens kumbe ni Kiganjo by product kama @Pamba 1
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QuadroK4000 said:
Off course, cut from same cloth and not your ordinary cops. Hawa ni wazito.

Probably like 3% of them.
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The 3% non D- fellows?:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:, my brothers and the scarce sisters/brothers who think they are sisters. The service is saturated with guys who are graduates, those that had C+ and above but couldn't join universities back then due to hiked entry points and they didn't lose hope with the quest for knowledge.
Sometimes I see blanket condemnation of the security sector guys and I am gutted, by wholesale condemnation and equally irked by the silence of the good guys in the service.
 
Anglututu said:
It's a responsibility of all parents, to change the next generation, otherwise, no hope.
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Why is everybody heaping the blame on parents? There are many exceptions to the general rule that “mtoto umleavyo ndivyo akuavyo”.
Condemning Parents for all the outcomes of a child into adulthood is not only mean and unreasonable but also outrightly wrong on all levels.
Some kids despite coming from responsible and upright upbringing choose the road to perdition.
Some Children have even been put through good schooling and even have progressed to the highest echelons of learning but still choose criminality. Are the parents still to blame here? Where is individual personal responsibility?

How about the unintended consequences of certain legislation Governments all over are enacting in the name of Child Welfare? I have in mind here those laws which outrightly outlaw and proscribe disciplining children by spanking or by any physical touching.
Last month I met a Somali family who are in trouble with the law for trying to discipline their 15 years old daughter. She had became so unruly and promiscuous that there was nothing they could do but watch her helplessly as she dragged them from one drama to the next. She distributed her slices generously to all the Wariahes and Kafirs alike from London to Glasgow and every other town in between without a care in the world while at the same time accumulating a big cache of pornographic videos and dildos of all colours, shapes and sizes in her room.
The deeply Muslim family devised a cunning plan -they took her to Garissa ostensibly for holiday only to leave her there with her grandparents without her passport. Hopefully she would learn from difficulties and hardships back home and change her wayward ways or so they thought. It was not to be.

On realising what had transpired, the Girl escaped and run to Nairobi to the British High Commission where she alleged she had been neglected and abandoned.
The British High Commission put her in a 5 star hotel for a week as they processed her travel documents back to UK. They organised a flight and within no time she was back in UK terrorising her parents once more. Right now as we speak the Government is demanding £7K from the parents for her hotel and flight. The Parents are also being sanctioned by Social Services for Child Neglect and Abandonment.

What about those young people who get into crime due to peer pressure and peer influence. Are the parents still culpable?

And those who get influenced by mass media about instant wealth and about conspicuous consumption? Parents still to blame?
Let’s stop buck passing and look at these issues critically.
 
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Tiiga Waana said:
Why is everybody heaping the blame on parents? There are many exceptions to the general rule that “mtoto umleavyo ndivyo akuavyo”.
Condemning Parents for all the outcomes of a child into adulthood is not only mean and unreasonable but also outrightly wrong on all levels.
Some kids despite coming from responsible and upright upbringing choose the road to perdition.
Some Children have even been put through good schooling and even have progressed to the highest echelons of learning but still choose criminality. Are the parents still to blame here? Where is individual personal responsibility?

How about the unintended consequences of certain legislation Governments all over are enacting in the name of Child Welfare? I have in mind here those laws which outrightly outlaw and proscribe disciplining children by spanking or by any physical touching.
Last month I met a Somali family who are in trouble with the law for trying to discipline their 15 years old daughter. She had became so unruly and promiscuous that there was nothing they could do but watch her helplessly as she dragged them from one drama to the next. She distributed her slices generously to all the Wariahes and Kafirs alike from London to Glasgow and every other town in between without a care in the world while at the same time accumulating a big cache of pornographic videos and dildos of all colours, shapes and sizes in her room.
The deeply Muslim family devised a cunning plan -they took her to Garissa ostensibly for holiday only to leave her there with her grandparents without her passport. Hopefully she would learn from difficulties and hardships back home and change her wayward ways or so they thought. It was not to be.

On realising what had transpired, the Girl escaped and run to Nairobi to the British High Commission where she alleged she had been neglected and abandoned.
The British High Commission put her in a 5 star hotel for a week as they processed her travel documents back to UK. They organised a flight and within no time she was back in UK terrorising her parents once more. Right now as we speak the Government is demanding £7K from the parents for her hotel and flight. The Parents are also being sanctioned by Social Services for Child Neglect and Abandonment.

What about those young people who get into crime due to peer pressure and peer influence. Are the parents still culpable?

And those who get influenced by mass media about instant wealth and about conspicuous consumption? Parents still to blame?
Let’s stop buck passing and look at these issues critically.
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The long essay wasn't really necessary, I already posted the confusion.
 
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