Where is Guka at that time

Sad to read words like these from your "mouth"!

Shame on you @2012 for sharing myths instead of teaching people correct history...

Total nonsense! How many patients in the country ever bother to know the name/tribe of the doctor who attends them in public institutions? It's your kind of reasoning (and your fabricated stories) that is messing up things in kenya. You and Ndii should stop your kasumba.

It's observed that people who take social media too seriously tend to delude themselves into a different reality. They also tend to follow/friend people who reason like themselves and funny enough, assume that's representative of society. One spends an entire day chatting with about 5 to 10 people and concludes that's the opinions of the entire world. A statement that gets 100 or even 1000 retweets/shares is actually not always public opinion or reality.

Talk to your neighbour. Talk to the people in the market. Talk to the people on the streets. That's where you'll find reality as it truly is. And away from keyboards, away from engineered stories and scripted debates you'll find there's more love, better reasoning and more cohesion in society.

Ukweli mtupu.

Sorry @2012, I'm responding to your first paragraph about Jomo vs his VP Jaramogi... That is the myth...

Can't help but laugh. When we were growing up, I heard that it is easy to con a Maasai. Now the foot is in the other shoe. This serves you right on behalf of all those who spread those silly lies. You carry their burden.

Dear Mr President.


I’m optimistic that this plea will in one way or the other get to you.

I’m a Kenyan citizen born in a poor family some 30 years ago in Emuhaya, Vihiga County.

I sat for my KCPE in 2000 scoring 457 out of 700 marks.

Due to school fees challenge, I moved from one school to another, eventually sitting for my KCSE in 2006 and scoring a B - (minus).

After Form 4, I enrolled for a diploma in Disaster Management at Masinde Muliro University.

I graduated in 2010.

Seven years later, I’m still jobless.

Mr President, I feel discriminated [against].

When you tell us to move on, I ask: To where?

Do you really know what it means to go on an empty stomach— when your appetite is high but there is nothing?

What if they were your children going without a meal because you can't provide for them?

My family has been discriminated [against] in Kenyan employment.

Imagine this: Five of us in my father's family are unemployed though we hold diploma qualification and above.

Look at this:

1. Simeon Okang'a, Diploma (disaster management), graduated 2010, unemployed.

2. Bath Mwenesi Okang'a, diploma 2011, degree 2015 (Medical Lab Tech), unemployed.

3. Joseph Okang'a, degree, (Education), 2015, unemployed.

4. Jane Nyangai Okang'a, diploma, (ECD), 2011, unemployed.

5. Faith Mihava Okang'a, P1, graduated 2012, unemployed.

Mr President, how can you tell a family like mine to move on?

To where?

I believed in Nasa, I voted for them on 8th August and boycotted on 26th October.

I was ready to be tear-gassed for them until December 9 when they postponed the swearing-in of Raila.

I discovered that following them is like going after a beautiful butterfly: When about to catch it, it flies to the next flower!

Let me ask this: If the Okang'as were from your family, the deputy president's, Raila’s, Kalonzo's, Musalia's, Wetang’ula's, Orengo's, Matiang’i's, Muigai's, Kiunjuri's, Esipisu's, Mailu's, could all of us still be unemployed?

That is why I feel we have been discriminated.

It pains me more when I have to wake up daily to do boda boda (in company of Standard Four, Five and Six dropouts).

Often, I’m the laughing stock and the point of reference of cases where education has no value.

Mr President, the Okang'a's are also Kenyans.

We are requesting for employment.

Not demanding for those high-end jobs but what is equivalent to our level of education— something I can use to put a roof over my children, something to cover their nakedness and a meal for their hungry stomachs.

Only that, Mr President.

I know you have done it in the past. And you can do it again.

Yours truly,

Simeon Okang'a

Kenyan.

I read this letter and I wondered (let me play devil's advocate) is this family lazy, unlucky, looking for opportunities in the wrong places? How would a different government created jobs for this family? Saa zingine 'serekari saidia' is not the answer.
This family simply lucks ambition. Yaani I wish he had said at least one is in business but now it sounds like the entire family is bumming at their folks. Sad indeed.

Where I come from once a guy is through with college,as he waits to be posted,he does odd things here and there (small farming,hawking,driver wa matatu,broker of everything and anything,Volunteer ).In the process he meets someone who helps him get what he aspired for or realises that the hustles are also not bad.

What Okang'a and his family have is the Serikali saidia mentality.Truth is the population is too big relative to the available jobs in government.This family should stop being lazy.We have even househelps earning a living and educating their kids.