A group of six Kenyans who were rescued from cold winter at T-Centralen by a Kenyan are doing well in their new abode. Although the situation is tight because they are crammed in a one roomed flat, they are out of the cold and good Samaritans continue to pop in to help. Their most urgent requirement is food because the Kenyan putting them up at the moment is experiencing a lot of difficulties in feeding them. To be precise, “The economic situation is worsening by the minute”.
So far, one of the Kenyans has been taken by another good Samaritan from Kenya while another Kenyan lady has promised to take yet another one in her flat during Christmas. The Kenyans are still in bad need of help and members of the Kenyan community are kindly asked to show solidarity with these Kenyans at this very difficult time. The fellow countryman housing them in his one roomed flat should be pronounced a hero. His incredible intervention should stimulate others to act.
On Thursday, a Kenyan popped in and contributed 100 kr so that they could take breakfast because the situation was acute. The latest hope is that another Kenyan has promised to pop in with a load of food on Friday or Saturday. KSB is mobilizing the humanitarian assistance and we appeal to Kenyans and other well-wishers for help during this Christmas which has turned out to be hell on earth for these innocent young Kenyans.
The Kenyan six have been abandoned by the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm which left them to freeze in the cold at the Central Station before they were rescued. At the time they were saved from sub zero temperatures, they had began to suffer from hypothermia after spending two days in the cold. They looked weak, hungry and tired after two days sleeping on the cold floor at the Central Station without food, shower and contact.
When the Station closed at around 1.00 hrs, they had to sleep outside in the street after being chased out by security guides before returning to the station at 5.00 hrs when the station doors opened. The least one could have expected from the Embassy was to accord them accommodation as they waited for Monday when their problems could be looked into.
The Ambassador lives in a huge villa at Nacka paid by tax payer with several empty rooms where they could have been accommodated but because she doesn’t care about the plight of Kenyans in Stockholm, the Embassy chose to chase them away because the Ambassador was “going on Christmas holiday”.
As Kenyans, we are in serious problems if our Ambassador can act in this way when it is clear that the lives of a group of Kenyans are threatened. The question that arises then is why we still need an Embassy in Stockholm when the Ambassador cannot meet even the most basic expectation when a Kenyan is in dire need. If the Kenyans were Swedish citizens stranded in Kenya, they could have been sleeping at a five star hotel before being flown to Sweden.
Since they had already been screwed by a Kenyan woman in Finland, there isn’t much the Embassy was expected to do apart from offering them accommodation then helping them to return to Kenya. However, by abandoning them at the Central station, Ambassador Purity Muhindi has shown her worst side when it comes to barbarism and animalistic behaviour for how do you abandon Kenyans to freeze in the cold without food to eat during one of the harshest Swedish winters? It is even more painful that the only reason was that the Ambassador was going on holiday!
Feeding on handouts
We take this opportunity to congratulate Kenyans who have taken these fellow citizens in during this trying moment. Four are still crammed in a room and we further appeal to well wishers to come to their rescue by taking in more of them. There is a vibrant Christian community in Stockholm and this is the right time for them to show compassion because Christians are celebrating Christmas.
How do you thank the Lord for all the things he has done for you and what do you say to the Almighty God when you are at home eating “Chickling” for Christmas and some countrymen are starving after being rescued from winter? You believe in Jesus but you have not even tried to get in touch to look into the plight of these Kenyans here on earth so why should you preach that people should love others as they love themselves? Surely, it is time for self re-examination and if you claim to be a Christian and you behave like our nasty Ambassador, then you should stop quoting from the bible. This is how I see it.
If you are not in a position to offer accommodation, you can pop in with some food because the situation is extremely desperate. Go to some food store like ICA, Konsum or Vivo and buy Manner-Gryn for ugali, some chicken wings for lunch, bread and milk for breakfast, some eggs if possible and some ribs which can be chomad in the oven to make these Kenyans feel good during Christmas. Don’t just sit there reading KSB and doing nothing because then, you begin to behave like the Ambassador.
Kenya Embassy is not providing food for the Kenyans and the risk is that although they are safe from the cold, they may starve to death if the current supplies run out. In fact, they are feeding on hand-outs so don’t just sit there with your whisky or mikebe celebrating Christmas when your own people are on the verge of starvation after being abandoned by a hopeless Ambassador who is supposed to be representing your country in Sweden. In case you can help or in case you want to meet these suffering countrymen (there is also at least one very intelligent girl), contact KSB for further instructions on how you can intervene.
From this latest example, it is evident that the Kenyan Embassy has failed in its responsibilities of taking care of Kenyans in distress abroad, a basic obligation and a Constitutional right. If the Kenyans had not taken contact with the Embassy, the Ambassador could convincingly argue that she did not know about their plight. We are in a situation where the Embassy was well aware that they were freezing at the Central station but chose to chase them away like rabid dogs. Two of the Kenyans went to the Embassy personally but they were chased away. The case of these Kenyans is further evidence that our Ambassador has failed her own people and that she is ripe for recall.
Despite frustrations from the Embassy, members of the Kenyan community should not follow the Embassy’s example and abandon these young and energetic Kenyans whose only crime is that they have been duped by a Kenyan crook in Finland. As has already been stated, their most urgent need is humanitarian and as you celebrate Christmas, think about them sitting in a room with a hopeless future after they were fooled by a stupid con woman who conned them out of their money before disappearing into thin air, leaving them freezing and starving at the Central Station.
Unlike the Ambassador, be human and get in touch to find out how you can help. Whatever your point of view, you can do something. A single Kenyan housing them is already doing more than he needs to do and popping up with a small load of food should not be so taxing during Christmas for when will you ever genuinely help someone you don’t know? More so, a fellow citizen in distress?
Okoth Osewe
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Thank you Mr. Osewe because of highlighting the plight of these stranded Kenyans and may our God bless you abundantly.
The role of a Christian is to intervene in each situation and show mercy and love. The bible says that ” if we do not love the people we see, how can we claim we love God whom we have never seen?”
Me and my family would like to give a helping hand so get in touch with me.
This is a sad experience for the youngsters. Please Mr. Osewe contact me to offer help. May the Kenyan who rescued them be blessed for his kindness.
Well sorry for the stranded kenyans and too bad too that they happened to be Kenyans. But the author of this article should not drag the personality of the Ambassador in the matter of this incident because the Embassy of Kenya in Stockholm is an institution that has a protocol and the Person heading this Insititution is just an officer who follows the rule of Law and therefore it would be so offenssive to attack the personality of the Ambassador in this way unless the author of this story have very serious personal differences with the said Ambassador. Further more those poor fellows were found in T-centralen whereby the Kenyan Embassy have no juridiction if they were found within the Juridiction of Kenyan Embassy and for some reasons the Embassy security chases them away, then i guess it would be worth to shift the blame towards the Embassy.
And to add, i think the Kenyan Embassy was instituted here in Stockholm to enforce relationship between Kenya and Sweden rather than looking after some unlucky kenyans who gets lost after a weekend of too much fun.
I praise the Kenyan community based in Sweden for the much they have helped the boys and It’s also not understood to many what the boys will have undergone through by the time the get somewhere.
I would wish if the KSB would also post the story directly to our local media so that this can be a lesson to many who blindly organise to get abroad.
It is also my wish that the Kenyan-Tanzanian woman should also be brought to books for her deeds.
Keep us informed KSB. Wish all a happy year 2009 ending and look forward for a better year 2010
Rasta chuma!!! Surely this is not human. How dare you say that the unlucky Kenyans were lost after a weekend of too much fun? Get to the story and you will regret why you made a comment. Let us praise the Kenyan community in Sweden. The Guys have suffered and all they would wish, I am sure, is to get home safely.
This Rasta Chuma is heartless for thinking this way.He must be bored during the Christmas holiday with nothing to do but to attck the stranded Kenyans and KSB.Osewe has mentioned that the man gets free booze at the embassy,no wander he supports purity.
Rasta Chuma! Im sorry but i find you to be a very shallow minded fellow. Are you not ashamed to write here that the Kenyan Embassy in stockholm that is suppose to serve the intresst of Kenyans in all scandinavia has only one soul purpose to enforce relationship btwn Sweden and Kenya only??????? C’mon: Well that may be part and parcel of its juridiction but be rest assured that one of it’s number one priorities is to serve the intresst of Kenyans abroad in this case all of scandinavia:
It’s as a matter of fact A BIG SHAME on Purity and her embassy that fellow Kenyans has to chip in and assist in matters that the Embassy should clearly take care of: If these Zombies we have at the embassy are friendly and have the african culture in them, hosting these young men could’nt have been a problem to them, that is if the embassy did’nt have enought money to settle them in some Rest INN; It’s of no use to have an embassy abroad if it fails in serving the intrest of it’s country men abroad. Our embassy in stockholm is little Kenya in Sweden and there all Kenyans should be welcome regardless of your ethnicity: Purity wacha udaku; If you can’t do you job resign and go back home where you can go and sit under a tree gossiping with your friend Mrs First Lady you kind of deserve each other wacha ku frastrate wakenya.
So did the Embassy staff accept to listen to the young Kenyans yesterday, after the Ambassador’s Christmas indulgence?
I hope these youngsters have adjusted to life and are doing better.