A LIE REPEATED MANY TIMES WILL BE TAKEN FOR TRUTH

The recent cases of bestiality being reported from some areas of central province are stagemanaged.They are the work of a certain politician who hates the region. He and his henchmen want to paint the community in bad light and turn all the other tribes against one community. This will lead to a revolution of sorts so that he takes power.

When I had this from a friend of mine, I had to stifle a burning temptation to strangle him. I haven’t heard somebody insult the intelligence of Kenyans in such a gross manner.

The central Kenya region has been conditioned to think that any problem in the area is caused by a certain politician out there. From the poor economy to the zoophilia attacks to the jigger epidemic….name it.This has been hammered down the throats of the hapless citizens such that they swallow the idea hook line and sinker .Such a sad state of affairs.

Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister for Propaganda (yes, the Fuhrer had such a docket) posited that a lie repeated many times will eventually be taken for truth. It doesn’t matter how ridiculous it is. And it doesn’t matter how educated the listener is-I hasten to add.

Central Kenya has some of the most beautiful women around. No doubt about it.When men from the region prefer our dumb friends, it’s time we ask ourselves when the rain started beating us. The sooner we accept that the central province man is an endangered species the better. He is a stranger in his own home where he has lost his voice. His ego is more battered than his rickety bicycle-such that he can’t make a pass at one of the village lasses. Years of empowerment of the central Kenya women has relegated him to the fringes of society.

For the keen observer, at any given time, central region is always hostage to some social problem that points to some dysfunctions in the society. Some years ago, it was the runaway crime. This was followed by increasing suicides cases especially among young men. Then out of the blues came the sporadic cases of bestiality. Not to mention the consumption of illicit beer which has been a perennial problem all along.

It’s time the region woke up from this cheap but effective propaganda churned by some leaders and addressed the enemy within. It’s time the central Kenya region addressed some of these social problems holistically and looked for permanent solutions to them. Otherwise life for many men from the region will remain Hobbesian- nasty, brutish and short.

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Gilbert Mwangi

28/7/2013