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Life just isn't fair is it?
Yesterday's bombing incident that claimed the life of only one person has shifted public attention away from the ongoing Mungiki massacres that have so far claimed scores of lives.
But even before Mungiki there has been the Aids scourge which is said to claim over 600 Kenyan lives daily.
Logic suggests that Aids should be continually the top item in the News followed by other items and the bombing incident should be alongside the hit and run accident that claimed one life somewhere in a city estate (they don't even report most of them).
But what happened yesterday? The bombing incident stole all the headlines and stole the limelight even from the special Kanu delegates conference at Kasarani where Uhuru delivered what has to be the first blow in getting Kanu out of ODM-Kenya.
Alas, human nature is that we get bored pretty quickly and the fact that 600 people will die today from complications associated with Aids is old boring news. So is another beheading or two by the Mungiki in comparison to an explosion that killed just one person in Nairobi.
If the bombings were to become regular (God forbid) in a few months they would be relegated to old stale news. Very fascinating, this animal called the Human Being.
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You are right. Kenyans (and indeed all people) have a short attention span. I could be wrong on this one but it appears Mungiki is slowly being pushed to the back burner. Ndura Waruinge and the forty thieves must be plotting ways of recapturing the headlines. I hope the police do not loose focus.
ReplyDeleteKenyans affinity of anything foreign (good or bad) may also be in play. Comparing a possible Osama-related attack to Mungikis’ mayhem (irregardless of the number of lives lost) relegates the latter to the status of the common village chicken thief.
As for the lives claimed by HIV, I think we’ve tragically become accustomed and accepted the disease to the point of dismissing it as severe malaria. Anyone wishing to joggle their memories should simply visit Kenyatta Hospital …. during the evening lorry run. It will bring tears to your eyes; even those of Mungiki adherents.
It sad the way news of a bomb hitting somewhere and killing one person is given front page coverage than a pandemic that is wiping families and leaving old people who are already weak and jobless to care for their grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteJust like Kalamari has mentioned we have become accustomed to the disease to a point that we just ignore it and imagine it doesnt exist until it hits someone close to us. One funny thing is man can never learn from another persons mistake, thats why we will still have more people getting infected with AIDS despite being sensitized on it. Its the same way girls are warned of getting unwanted pregnancy yet more and more girls get pregnant when not prepared.
So I can say AIDS like unwanted pregancy is here to stay, until people start learning from mistakes of others and change their ways. Its also sad because people used to fear for the girl child but now we fear for both.
i thought the bombing was overhyped, the media is to blame. It was a small time skirmish that happened in the city. The media makes a killing by overhyping news that shock and scare people. This was a perfect example.
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