Over the last few days, our media has been awash with news coverage about the issue of human/animal conflict. Communities are encroaching the space set for wild animals and the animals are retaliating by visiting the town centers and intermingling with people freely. It is the daily norm to find a lion in the streets of Nairobi may be in a butchery buying a kilo of Nyama, then it would tell the butcher "Usiweke Mifupa Mob." Or even find a monkey listening to a radio, Usiseme ina Uluhya. Our abled KWS managed to stabilize the situation at Isinya where they shot at a lion dead for public safety. KWS may be applauded for killing a lion but there is another king who emerges, Fisi. Smriti Vidyarthi I think by now I should be in your show, the Wild Talk.
The famous Kiswahili quote "panya akiondoka, paka...and when two bulls fight, in this case the grass benefits." Lets take this story literally, KWS obviously represents the government or the society, the Lion, the king of the jungle, for the family man, and Team Mafisi is obviously those who want to reap where they didn't sow.
Am worried for these married men who dedicate most of their times fighting for the society and the government, sijataja Weta. They are family men, with lovely wives who they promised to be a lion in their lives and spend most of their time together. Surprisingly, when they got to the high ranks at their parastatals, organizations, political positions at the "KWS", they vanished. Like the dust during this equinox, they are only seen by a whisker. One, they forget during the equinox the temperatures are too high to even make plants flourish. The same applies to the kitchen garden, its vegetables and all other ingredients meant to spice our meals may end up withering. In this case, the Lion will just be strolling, disturbing people and showing sheep and goats how its powerful. You are left to wonder, the Lion should be fighting wild beasts and other fierce animals, but attacking the public, aiiii even the podium is set to fall. That is when KWS enters the field to counter the lion's acts. A fight will ensue for the entire day, and the lion will decide to retire back to its jungle, fatigued.
When the lion returns back to the jungle, it will be so tired that it cannot even have a banter with the lioness. That is when the lioness will go mad. "Sincerely, the lioness would ask, you mean you fought all day, left me here to dry under the scorching sun with no one to water my garden, you did not even go hunting and you brought nothing for our cubs, and here you are saying that you are tired, chineke my friend." Ladies and gentlemen, what we will witness the following day will be the lion at the KWS office recording a statement. After its dental formula has been dismantled, its mane has been disoriented and the lioness used it to make a weave, and a bandage all over the Lion's head. It will complain of the lioness attacks and we will be left wondering, the previous day it was in the public domain showing its might by fighting an entire KWS army, it could have just done the same to its lioness. This is when the most successful team than the Harambee stars, Team Mafisi emerges, to water the kitchen garden for the lioness.
Ask Mc Jessy and Shafie Weru, they will tell you that it is only the Mafisi Sacco that admits members without paying premiums, guarantors, next of kin, ID number and all those requirements. They only ask for experience, do it and don't be caught, their mantra. Now when the lion is busy showing its claws and waving the paws against the KWS faces, Team Mafisi immediately assumes power in the jungle. Just a point to remember, the Kitchen garden is running dry, what do the hyena do? water it and do it to the best of its knowledge. The lioness will find solace in Hyena's paws, it will complain no more, they will eat carcass together and the lion's position in the jungle will be completely forgotten.
Please ladies and gentlemen, let us first safeguard our jungles before going out for the KWS....
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