Last night a young Somali woman in Eastleigh nursed a nastily bruised leg after she was struck by a soda bottle by a fellow Somali who accused her clan for being responsible for the fresh turmoil currently rocking Somali.
It is these apparently small incidents that lead to deadly events and what happened in Eastleigh yesterday, should never be allowed to happen again even if it means deporting hundreds of Somali's back to their own war torn country.
The injured girl who comes from the same clan as the Somali president is just but another illegal immigrant in Kenya probably like her assailant who had no right in attacking the innocent girl. It is through such actions that animosity between the two rival clans could boil over and lead to a deadly battle with innocent Kenyans being caught in the cross fire.
This incident also raises an issue that I have often repeated here. And that is the fact that Eastleigh is nothing but a time bomb, which the authorities continue to ignore. The notorious city estate has now been christened "Mogadishu" due to the high number of Somali nationals in the area who have virtually taken over the neighborhood. Their main business activity is mainly the selling of smuggled goods from neighboring countries.
It is also in Eastleigh that one can acquire a firearm with minimum hustle and the government should move in and regain control of the situation before it is too late because Eastliegh is a tragedy waiting to happen.
The Somali problem has been with us for the past two decades ever since their government collapsed after president Siad Barre was deposed by rival clan militia in a deadly war that resulted to hundreds of thousands of Somali's fleeing to Kenya.
Most of them found refuge in Eastleigh where many of their relatives had settled while the few who were rich and influential made their way to Europe and North America, especially Canada and the Nordic countries where they quickly found ways of being granted asylum.
Among those who came to Kenya were tough criminals and gang members of the various militia's operating in Somali and many managed to smuggle small arms and other contraband through the border to sell in Nairobi for the sake of survival.
If the government was really serious about arresting the rising crime rate in the country, especially gun related violence, they should start with a major operation in Eastleigh and its environs and will be surprised at what they will find hidden under the guise of "water broof watches" and fake designer jeans which are peddled 24 hours a day as Nairobi's "Mogadishu" never goes to sleep.
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