WHO IS THIS MAN IN GREEN?

Whenever I walk around the University area, I meet men and women in green. You could wonder what their work is, somehow they look like policemen.

The first people to encounter when I came to Moi on my first visit were these guys in green. At first I thought they are policemen so I kept a distance due to believe I have on policemen. Normally, people hate associating with policemen and it is natural to fear them. Whenever you pass by their side you feel like they could arrest you even if you haven’t done anything worth to be detained. I thought the men in green at the administration block were policemen but to my surprise they didn’t carry their guns so I felt at ease to walk. I knew they were in peace and not in a position to shoot if you distract them. The worst thing I fear on earth is a gun short.

Moi university students believe that these beings in green don’t do their work to the maximum. They only patrol one area talking without any signs of alertness. They view them as uneducated who don’t understand anything about security and never went to school. At times students refer them as ‘Kamaliza’ a name that shows clearly how they under rate them. Students claim that while the security men are there, they still lose their belongings through theft which is being conducted day and night. They wonder how these thieves manage to go away with their valuables without the knowledge of the security men.

The most stolen items within the campus surrounding are the electronics. Laptops, Mobile phones, iron boxes, music system and many other electronic devices are the most reported valuables belonging to students. The most stolen university property are the mattresses, may be that could be the reason why the university has decided to buy two inch mattresses instead of the six inch they normally buy. Students’ often get stressed whenever they lose a laptop or a mobile phone as this are the most essential devices they have and are costly.

Naomi a third year student lives to tell the trauma that she went through after she lost two phones in a semester. Naomi says that the phones were stolen through the window and wonders how a thief could break the window while she is in deep sleep in the night and then snatches the phone under her pillow without her knowledge. She believes that the thieves might have sprayed the room first with sleeping drugs making her unconscious before they could break the window. She said that she heard nothing during that night and to her astonishment, she had woken up in the morning only to realize that the window was wide open and her phone was no more. She felt like crying to death, but fear pricked her, the fear of her assailant killing her via the window.

Patrick a 5^th year student in the school of engineering has a story to tell on his encounter with thieves in his room in hostel L, he had kept his laptop under bed and rushed to take a shower. On coming back, the door was open and everything in the room was turned upside down. He was dump founded. How will he explain this to his father who had sacrificed for him to have that precious laptop, he didn’t know whom to tell the story. Security men could not help him since the laptop was gone in a broad daylight. Christine also a psychology student is a victim of circumstance. Her phone had been stolen through the window while it was on charging in her room, KLG basement. She never saw the thief nor the phone when she walked in from fetching water.

Could there be ghosts in Moi University who steal day and night? Why is there no arrest on those thieves? Naomi leaves with fear whenever she is in her room alone. She says at times she is awoken by scary dreams of theft in the night.

The security men in Moi University can give their best in ensuring that security is in order only if the students are able to report cases of theft immediately. On the other hand, the thieves could be fellow students who spy their friends and later apply a trick on them without their knowledge thus proofing it difficult for the security men to cab insecutity.

UBAKAJI NI UNYAMA USIO KIFANI

UBAKAJI NI UNYAMA USIO KIFANI

Ni jambo la kusikitisha kugundua kwamba utekelezaji wa unyama huu bado umekita mizizi katika karne ya ishirini na moja, ambapo watu wameelimika kupitia mfumo mpya wa teknolojia ya kisasa almaarufu ‘digital’.

Kufuatia kifo cha msichana moja aliyebakwa na kuuawa katika chuo kikuu cha Moi, hofu na taharuki zimezuka chuoni humo. Miongoni mwa waliohadhirika zaidi kutokana na kisa hicho ni wanafunzi wa kike ambao wanahofia usalama wao. Hii imewafanya kutotoka nje usiku hivyo basi kuchangia kuzoroteka kwa masomo yao  kwani hawaendi maktaba masaa ya usiku kwa kuhofia maisha yao. Wafanyi biashara nao wameadhirika hadi wanalazimika kufunga biashara zao mapema kutokana na ukosefu wa usalama katika maeneo ya kituo cha magari kijulikanacho kama “stage” na cheboywo.

Juhudi za serikali na jamii kwa ujumla kukabiliana na jinamizi hili la ubakaji zimeambulia patupu. Habari zinazo chipuka kwenye vyombo vya habari  ni zile za ubakaji na mauaji. Kusema kweli, watu wamekosa nidhamu na intidhamu hadi wakabakiwa na unyama wa kupindukia. Heshima na taadhima kwa binadamu wenzao zimeadimika kama maziwa ya kuku. Hadi lini tutaacha kusikia habari za baba kumdhulumu bintiye kingono?Ni lini wasichana wa umri mdogo wataacha kunajisiwa na watu wazima? Ni nani kawakamua utu uzima?

Ni jambo la kusikitisha na kuhuzunisha kuona baadhi ya  wale uwapendao wakipitia dhuluma za ubakaji. Wasichana wa chini ya umri wa miaka kumi na sita hubakwa mara kwa mara na kulazimishwa kubaki kimya kwa tishio la kifo lakini wanawake wa umri wa miaka kumi na nane  na kuendelea wanaelewa haki zao, hivyo basi kuuawa baada ya kunajisiwa haswaa wanapowatambua wavamizi hao.Kinachoshangaza ni kwamba wanaume hao wanapokamatwa na kufikishwa kortini, hudai kwamba wanawake hawa huwa hawavalii  mavazi ya heshima. Jambo dhahiri ni kuwa hawawezi kupata utamu wowote kutoka kwa mwanamke huyo kushinda utamu wa wake wao au wapenzio.

Wanawake wanashauriwa wawe waangalifu maanake mambo kangaja huenda yakaja na unayedhani mwendani wako anaweza kugeuka na kuwa adui wako. Usalama utaanza miongoni mwetu, iwapo tutashirikiana kwa pamoja kuangamiza uhalifu.

Forgotten giant amidst us

FORGOTTEN GIANT AMIDST US

It is now a week after the Valentine’s Day and Moi university V.C.T health center is flooded with clients wanting to clear their heads of their suspicions.

On my quest to find out how students use the facility at the health care center, I had to visit the place. On my arrival to the V.C.T, the queue that greeted my eyes answered all my questions. I had gone to the place at 3pm thinking there were few clients and that I would be attended to quickly but I was wrong.

It dawn on me now that I didn’t know the rule of the place. Everyone in the queue had a love partner and went inside the room in pair so I was the odd one out. They were encouraging themselves not to fear whatever the results they were going to get. It had never occurred to my mind that there were beings there out risking their lives thus stressed of contracting HIV/AIDS in the process.

Most clients in the queue had a history of drinking alcohol and cigarette smoking. I could hear them mentioning while waiting. I felt sympathy for them since they didn’t care on the side effects of using such drugs. They believed that such drugs are a source of happiness and could help them strengthen their relationship. They were free enough to talk romance to each. A guy started, “you are the most romantic woman I ever met,” at a time singing, “we ni wangu tu,” you could think they were already drunk at that hour of the day.

Some couples queued until they were tired and decided to leave, it’s like the fear of the results had overwhelmed them and couldn’t wait anymore. Although they were encouraging themselves all the time, they had no choice but to leave.

It is not long since the last list of infected students in campus was produced by a student who happened to be the source and had made sure that she had infected over hundred students in campus.  Many had to rush to the notice board to see whether their names were among the list. This should be a lesson to all students. It is better to get a baby for a baby is not a virus unlike the virus itself.