REALITIES OF LIFE

MY VICTORY IS YOUR VICTORY May I paraphrase Abraham Lincoln "A house divided against itself can not stand" so I say a divided East Africa shall not stand. GREETINGS To the Cabinet Secretary Professor Jacob Kaimenyi, To the President AUA Architect Kaisi Kalambo, to The outgoing president of EAIA Architect Robert Kiggundu, Council members and delegates EAIA, GC Members and all those present here tonight I greet you all good evening. RESILIENCE Every generation is called upon to rise and fight a vice that threatens the endurance of free society, at their time. The  generation Abraham Lincoln was called upon to abolish slavery, the generation of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta & Mwalimu Julius Nyerere were called upon to abolish colonialism. Our generation is called upon to abolish corruption. This we must do. For us to remain free and for us to usher in the new dawn of prosperity for all people of our nations. This is a duty our generation can not avoid. We owe this duty to ourselv...

Kenya has been the scene of various attacks attributed to terrorist elements. This is since in the 80s when The Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the PLO. In late 90s, another attack of the US embassy in Nairobi was again bombed. This did not take long before Paradise Hotel owned by the Israeli was attacked by terrorist approximately four years after the US embassy bombed. In 2013, 67 lives claimed by the militant of the Al-Shabaab, Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. Life was normal for the students of a University college in the remote part of Kenya, North East, which borders Somalia. This was on a Wednesday of the month not until masked gunmen on the dawn of Thursday of the month stormed the fortified campus hostels shooting indiscriminately at the fleeing students before taking several hundred hostages. This ended when four masked gunmen donated their suicide vests, with a fifth arrested. This attack left at least 147 dead, mostly students, with survivors afterward recount...

            There she was!,seated at the edge of her bed while crying bitterly.She is mourning and lamenting everything around her."Oh dear God!,why allow me to undergo all these?,Iam now seeing how unfair the world is,where is my future in this state of mine?,how I wish I knew that this inhuman man was only after ruining my life."Those were the words of Shila as I watched her rubbing tears out of her red eyes. Shila was strolling around Eldoret town along the Eldoret-Nakuru highway when a black Japanese Range Rover pulled up next to her with a good looking man on the wheel. Shila had matched her long bond hair with a purple mini-dress flattering her body figure. The man peeped through the window of the car and their eyes met.He smiled and shouted,Hey pretty lady! can I have your phone number? " Shila blushed and gave the number to the man.The following day the man made a phone call.He asked her to meet him at one of the restaurants in town.Shila feel...