The month of March opened with both politics and tragedy. On the political scene, Mr. Martin Ngatia, the Chairperson of the Kenya Red Alliance (KRA) took the stage to intervene in Kenyan politics. Speaking on video, Mr. Ngatia took up the issue of police trying to disarm pastoralists especially in North Eastern Province while he also attacked the Kenyan government for being incapable of providing security to millions of Kenyans who were being killed by police and criminals alike.
Traditionally, cattle rustling in Eastern and North Eastern provinces has been a major problem and livestock owners have lost thousands of cattle stolen by armed bandits who sometimes operate from neighboring countries. Although it is the work of Kenyan security forces to protect livestock farmers and deal with cattle rustlers, the government has, more seldom than not, failed in its responsibilities. When the situation got out of hand and it became clear that Kenya’s security forces were incapable of dealing with cattle theft, many farmers in the affected areas decided to arm themselves in self defence with the same weapons the rustlers were using. They took up AK47 rifles.
As is to be expected, the government became nervous when citizens began to take up arms to address major security failures that were leading to deaths and loss of property. When Mr. Ngatia learnt that the government was intending to disarm pastoralists under the prevailing circumstances, he took a strong stand and said that the pastoralists should resist disarmament because they had no option but to defend themselves. For further details, check the Ngatia videos.
New music releases by Kenya-Stockholm Artists
A tragic piece of news at KSB that was not directly linked to Kenya-Stockholm was the case of Judith Omondi, a 30 year old Kenyan lady who was accused in Finland of spreading HIV. Shocking pictures depicting the Kenyan in a horrible physical state were splashed across the World media following the arrest of Judith. A number of Kenyans in Stockholm are known to suffer from HIV infection but so far, there has been no “media scandal” that can be likened to what was witnessed in the Judith Omondi case. Many Kenyans who suffer from the disease in Stockholm live quiet and disciplined lives although there have been a handful who have been exhibiting traits of recklessness.
During the first week of March, and just as the case of Judith was sinking into the consciousness of Wananchi, DJ Daddie, a Kenyan Artist, released a song which was circulated via Youtube. DJ Daddie has been doing well although he has not yet made a major breakthrough in the industry. Having arrived from Kenya not so long ago, it would be safe to say that releasing a song within such a very short period of time was a modest achievement. KSB can only wish DJ Daddie well during the coming year.
If DJ Daddie’s achievement was “modest”, Rapper Billy Boy’s release of the song “Odiero” was a “breakthrough”. Odiero became so popular that soon, it was being played on Kenyan radio stations. Locally, Billy’s fans flooded KSB looking for a way of getting this incredible composition that tended to exploit the inter-racial love theme. With his group, the G-Ruffs, Billy has proved to be one of the most prolific and resilient Kenyan Artist in Stockholm. Part of his success is now noticeable in Kenya where a branch of G-Ruffs (G-Ruffs Takatifu) has been in the news.
Escape from knife attack at night
Every Kenyan resident in Stockholm somehow understands the ups and downs of life. In March, there was a rare case of success when a Kenyan girl who had been deported to Kenya after she was found paperless by police, returned to Stockholm well loaded with them Mapepe.
Apart from her success, the lady surprised KSB with her level of courage when she popped up with news to say that she wanted to notify all her friends and Kenyans alike that she had bounced back following her deportation. She was arrested partying in a pub in Märsta and since the news about her arrest also featured at KSB, she thought that it was time to update readers that she was back and swinging in town. By asking KSB to publish news about her return, it was like throwing a tortoise into the water because the storo found its way at the blog in less than 24 hours!
March also brought with it a near tragic development which shocked many readers. One morning, readers woke up to learn that a Kenyan woman had narrowly escaped a knife attack by a fellow woman assailant who apparently wanted to dispatch her to the next world. It was not very clear how the battle started but what is known is that police had to be called in to help as the Kenyan woman fled to safety. The cops were called to recover the Kenyan’s hand bag which remained behind in the attacker’s apartment during a moment of flight for dear life.
Ochieng Smalls’ wife passes on
Just like in the previous month, Kenyans were hit by another bereavement. The difference was that a Kenyan had not lost a close relative back home but rather, a Kenyan had passed away in Stockholm. Many Kenyans may not have known Mr. Arnold Okaka but few who knew him like Mr. Joshua Oyugi and the Oduya family did whatever was necessary to ensure that his body was transported home for burial. Luckily, there was no controversy surrounding his funeral and after the brother landed in Stockholm to pick up the body, things went like clock-work and eventually, the body was laid to rest in eternal peace in Kenya. It was sad that once again, the population of Kenyans in Stockholm had been reduced by at least one person.
Just as the shock absorbers were working on Kenyan souls to contain the shocking news following Okaka’s departure, fresh and sad news hit the Kenya-Stockholm community. This time, Ochieng Small, a Kenyan, lost his wife back home. A harambee was called to help Ochieng travel for burial but unfortunately, not enough funds were raised and this delayed Ochieng’s trip considerably.
Abandoned by woman paper-maker
At KSB, there are some news items known as “forgotten storos”. A storo can be forgotten when a lot of things are happening at the same time, making KSB’s Editorial Board to run out of time for follow-up. An example of such a situation is the story of a Kenyan male who was abandoned in Kenya by a woman “Paper maker”. After part one of the storo was published at KSB, events could not allow for publication of the second installment.
The Kenyan dude had spent a fortune to try and settle in Sweden and after securing a lady paper-maker, he went home to await for them Mapepe. The Kenyan noticed that he had been dumped when he was updated by a Kenya-Stockholmer that his wife had filed a divorce and that she appeared to have fallen in love with a new guy who was hanyaring her in Stockholm. After failing to sort out the mess, the guy contacted KSB with his storo and part two is scheduled for next year. The story needs to be brought to a closure.
Fund raising at Continental Hotel
St James, a well known Kenyan Artist, has his own way of making news. In March, KSB intercepted his responses to a Journalist’s questions about his wealth, health and other stuff. For a glimpse, here we go: “On a personal note, I gladly go to the local watering-hole in Stockholm, and having learned that ‘Mwenye kununua pombe ovyo-ovyo ni either karao, ama mwizi’, I keep certain pertinent details to myself, out of pure neccesity. (In other words, I will gladly take the subway, or a rickety turkish cab home with my cronies… without them ever knowing that my Armed-chauffeur driven Lincoln Town-Car is never far behind)”.
As they say, death comes as a surprise. Kenyans will remember that it is the same month of March when Emperor, a Kenyan resident in Stockholm, lost his brother back home and he had to travel urgently to attend the funeral. If you have good friends in Stockholm, they can always back you up in times of crisis. A funds drive was called at Continental Hotel in a moment of solidarity with the bereaved Emperor. During the harambee, the tendency of Kenyans organizing harambees at Continental came under debate with the dominant view having been that a lot of money is lost by fund raising at the Hotel because drinks are expensive while no proceeds from drinks are ever recycled into the harambee kitty.
“Have you cooked ugali…”
During the third week of March, a big story that hit the headlines was that of a guy called Mashaka. After splitting with his wife, he went back to Kenya with one objective – to fix a typical and simple village wife who would never bring him problems in Stockholm, the kind of trouble that his sophisticated Stockholm wife brought about leading to an end of his long standing marriage. Part of the problem was the tendency of the wife to abandon Mashaka in the house as she went out on night boogies during the so called “Ladies Nights” then returning home totally zonked and asking whether Mashaka had cooked ugali na nyake.
“You mean you have not cooked for your wife, you silly husband… don’t you know this is Sweden where men and women are equal?” are the kind of confrontations that disturbed Mashaka. He told KSB that he felt as though he had been castrated.
The relationship entered into crisis when Mashaka “could no longer take it”. As Mashaka went to Kenya for a unique alternative, his ex was taken over by a dude from Zaire who established himself in Mashaka’s former flat as he began to chew the goods under a new arrangement.
Relocation to Kenya gone awry
Sometimes, life in Stockholm becomes so boring that you organize to relocate back in Kenya. Normally, this means fixing the finances so that when you land in the motherland, you are basically sorted out. In March, a Kenyan who had relocated back home resurfaced in Stockholm after his bizz plans (that formed the basis of his relocation) went hay-wire, forcing him to catch a quick flight back to Kenya-Stockholm. One positive element with this case is that the Kenyan never shies away from telling his fellow countrymen what happened. We will not go into detail here because this is a review.
But to put it briefly, business plans that started off quite well began to enter into serious difficulties and with time, money flow from the investment began to slow down. When it became clear that recovery plans had reached “rock-bottom” and no bail-out from any bank or government agency was forth coming, prospects of returning to Stockholm also began to take shape in the mind of this dude. A lot of last minute efforts to revive the bizz were frustrated because Kenya is a “swamp of corruption” and every move to re-energize the venture simply collapsed like the World Trade Center which came down on 911.
The business soon entered into irreversible “liquidity problems” and the best that could be done was to auction any tangible assets as ways of returning to Stockholm were looked into. When KSB met the Kenyan after he landed, he was very candid. Many Kenyans who plan to relocate could learn a lot of lessons by talking to him because another good thing is that this hard working son of Kenya is not in hiding after his plans went up in smoke. We can only wish him the best as he recoups in turbulent Kenya-Stockholm.
Human “natural resources” on sale
When it comes to sensation, there is a piece of news that could scoop the ultimate prize. KS-Beers switched on their computers one day to learn that “Kenyan sperms” were in high demand in Sweden and that for “a shot” collected through a program at Karolinska hospital, the donor was paid Ksh 4000.
The news could have been treated as a bluff had it not appeared in one of the regional Swedish newspapers. Kenyan sperms were in high demand because the “market” had been boosted by the election of Barack Obama as Prezzo of the United States. Soon, Kenyan males were trooping to Karolinska “to have their equipments milked” by cute Swedish blondies whom, according to the storo, “were trained to do anything” to get them spunjetos. It was very interesting that some Kenyans even took a “working holiday” at Karolinska “to make some money” by selling what they termed as “natural resources”.
Unfortunately, the month of March ended with another bereavement. George Ochieng Dokta lost his brother in Kenya and so he had to rush home to attend the funeral. Friends quickly congregated at Dokta’s residence to condole with the bereaved family. That is how events unfolded during the month of March. Watch out for events in April.
Okoth Osewe
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we all remember reading about Mama Kisu.time flies sounds like jana
Keep up the good work Osewe!!!
Why don’t you put this stuff into a TV show?
You have certainly made my year more enjoyable. I am looking forward to the next one!
Ati Kenya sperms were in high demand hence every woman wanted to be injected with these speacial sperms to at least have a kid who would become like Obama>With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton’s army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.
>It was very interesting that some Kenyans even took a “working holiday” at Karolinska “to make some money” by selling what they termed as “natural resources”.
made my day!
A country that you would not have wanted to live in if it was not peaceful and secure for you to bring up your children in.The truth is that Kenya will never be the same again. If you read my predictions for this year you will know that I predicted a successful strike by the Al-Shabab in Kenya. And if you have been following the news then you will know that so far this year there have already been at least two attempts to blow up something and we are still in January .But the questions that we should all be asking ourselves now is how did we get to where we are now?Our intelligence people have known for years now that hundreds of Somali nationals stream into the country daily.
KSB: Talking about prediciting a terrorist attack… It was long overdue!
http://kenyastockholm.com/2010/01/27/a-terrorist-attack-on-kenya-is-inevitable/