Monday, February 2, 2009

On fire....

Tragedy hits once so often to wake a nation into its grave realities. I guess that is some reason to peg onto the recent disastrous events that took place within a certain week in January. We lost 150 plus lives by just a fire. Nothing to be taken lightly since there is something we all learned from the two fires. A supermarket caught fire on a Wednesday afternoon, and the irrational detail is the fact that the stores employees closed the doors requesting receipts to allow the victims exit.

Things did eventually get out of hand, and the same individuals continued the streak of cruelty by saving their own swine asses. Going down electric poles like shameless strippers, for they have stripped lives off of people. Another incident, a while a way-three days later- a tanker blows off on a highway. Killing 111 people on the spot and injuring scores of others, now nursing devastating wounds.

Kenya is on fire, where a frantic such for leadership ensues. It is now more frenzy than calmness. Everywhere one goes, there is talk of who can do this?who can handle that? Frankly speaking, I have been some of that myself. I know I can rant about something and make good sense of it. I am aware there is no fairness in this world, unless of course you are heavily endowed with earthly possession. Things don't quite cut like they used to. People are often inclined to tear everything in pieces. Things are surely falling apart, Chinua Achebe once inscribed!

Someone needs to douse the

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