Kenya is ever on top of destinations for bored Britons and other idle foreigners. Recently, there has been an increase of these visitors, most coming with good messages but others, especially those who have stayed for a quite a long-time, often release unfriendly communiqués.
Good news first.
It’s heartening to hear news of some ‘lost’ Prince proposing to his girlfriend on Kenyan soil. It’s quite an adorable imagination when one seriously sits down and meditates on it. You know the guy saw it fit to bring his jewel to far-away land, the fast disappearing jungle where his forefathers pitched tent for ages as they messed locals with their civilisation mantras, than kneel before her in some backstreet dungeon next to Trafalgar Square in London, or some forgotten Park in Edinburgh. When you cool your mind with such a thought you will realise how important Kenya is.
Prince William did Kenya free advertisement and soon this country will be the perfect destination to propose and expect positive response-I guess it will make a holier place to do, especially when in Masai Mara where monkeys, giraffes, leopards and wilder beasts, would probably cheer and seek instant reproduction too, as the foreigner dunk the ring into the desperate finger- than an evil-infested beach in Rio de Janeiro. Mombasa has good beaches for such endeavours but when, let’s say its drug pests and peddlers are wiped out. If not then, Prince William’s people would have to make do with smoky engagements whenever they think of doing it in Mombasa.
Talking of Mombasa and drugs and another long-time visitor who was there recently seems to have lost track on his right mission in this country. The ever-talking, multiple-king of Kalenjin, Luhya, Giriama, and others, the foe to all politicians, the Attorney General, and every other top government politician salivating for United States, gave orders (don’t know from above or wherever) to some fledgling Kenyan commissions. Michael Ranneberger. It’s him. Don’t ask who else it could be because there is none.
The Kenyan politicians’ enemy, “called on” or rather ordered: “the Interim Independent Electoral Commission and the yet to be formed Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission to make it a requirement that all candidates seeking elective positions publicly disclose the source of their campaign money”- The East African.
Yeap, the American was issuing orders to Kenyans in Kenya, not on behalf of President Kibaki- I wonder if he knows that Kenya is a sovereign state with its own elected president because he handles his ego like Obama’s emissary in Illinois or Nevada- but on behalf of himself. The outspoken man declared he was denying visas some drug peddlers who had reaped more than enough from the trade.
The outspoken man, who once rattled former Foreign Affairs minister, Moses Wetangula, is more forgetful about his or perceived role than remembering his rightful business. The mundu, Wetangula, applying Wanga’s wisdom, threatened to declare him persona-non-grata (an unwanted person). Though the mundu khumundu warning did not bring forth many fruits, the threatened American retreated a bit. However, he’s now back breathing fire and brimstone. Of course he should, now panya ameondoka (the cat is away).
Even with this freedom, Ranneberger is overdoing it. Why and how can a visiting envoy give orders to Kenyans? It’s not possible, at all. Not when his Kenyan counterpart in Washington DC is forcefully lame when it comes to such or related activities. So when Mr. MR is all over Kenya issuing decrees, he should be begged to cool down and requested to ask his brothers to come and get engaged on Kenyan soil like Prince William.
Just by the way...
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