Author Topic: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames  (Read 16294 times)

Offline Kichwa

  • Moderator
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 2886
  • Reputation: 2697
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2016, 11:56:02 PM »
This election period is going to be more violent than we have ever witnessed.  The country is on edge and the winner needs to win fair and clear with a huge mandate.  Otherwise we may need a coalition government to hold it together.
"I have done my job and I will not change anything dead or a live" Malonza

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2016, 01:20:24 AM »
Quote
In Murang’a,
Kahithe Mixed,
Igikiro Boys,
Rarakwa Girls and
Kihumbuini secondary have reported unrest.
Dormitories at
Kibutha Girls and
 Kiruri Secondary schools were burnt down,
while students at Kirogo Secondary smashed classroom windows before police arrived.
Property of unknown value was also destroyed after students from St Peter’s Kandara Boys High School (formerly Gakarara Secondary School)
in Kandara, Murang’a county,  torched one of their dormitories,

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2016, 01:44:47 AM »

Offline MOON Ki

  • Moderator
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 2668
  • Reputation: 5780
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2016, 03:08:56 AM »
Our young'uns are slowly but surely beginning to understand how the world works. They are seeing lawlessness in our politicians, headmasters, etc. for what it is and what it represents.

They're beginning to understand that they can and must challenge a corrupted authority.

Indeed.   They are waking up to the con.  They look up and see that those asking them to behave are themselves engaged in some serious misbehaviour and benefiting from it..   Even religion has not been left out, with "pastors" regularly in the media for "colourful" activities.   
MOON Ki  is  Muli Otieno Otiende Njoroge arap Kiprotich
Your True Friend, Brother,  and  Compatriot.

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2016, 04:29:16 PM »

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #25 on: July 26, 2016, 04:47:01 PM »

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #26 on: July 26, 2016, 04:54:23 PM »
Looks like the Empire is striking back:


Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2016, 08:19:57 PM »
No let up. Counting tonight too. Iten is in Pundit!

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #28 on: July 26, 2016, 08:38:32 PM »
  • Watuka Boys High School in Kieni West.
  • Mwiyogo Secondary School and
  • Wamagana Girls Secondary School,  (closed after students became rowdy, with some choosing to walk out of the schools).

Offline veritas

  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 3358
  • Reputation: 4790
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #29 on: July 26, 2016, 10:03:19 PM »
It's not easy torching a whole school. Need fuel. Likely paid arsonists leading up to elections. From 2008:

http://tucson.com/news/killers-arsonists-in-kenya-paid-group-says/article_6bb69caa-9d8a-5a1e-8e69-807acc8cf7b2.html

Quote
Killers, arsonists in Kenya paid, group says
NAIROBI, Kenya — The price for burning down a home: 500 shillings, or about $8. Double that to have someone hacked to death.

The price list comes from a leading Kenyan human rights group that says some of the worst violence in the country's deadly disputed presidential election is the work of militias paid and directed by politicians.

The government of President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition have traded blame for the killing and arson that followed Kibaki's victory in the Dec. 27 election that international observers say was followed by a rigged count.

Some of the attacks took on an ugly ethnic twist, with other tribes turning on Kibaki's Kikuyu people.

But the respected and independent Kenyan Human Rights Commission says there is more to it, and that it appears to involve politicians from both sides.

It "was portrayed as some primal, irate rising up of (ethnic) communities against each other," commission chairwoman Muthoni Wanyeki told The Associated Press. "But our investigations indicate it seems to be very organized militia activity . . . (the violence) very much seems to be directed and well organized."

She pointed to the torching of a church sheltering Kikuyu, dozens of whom burned to death.

"One group was watching the church, and then another took over," Wanyeki said. "We say it's organized because they are working in groups of 10 to 15 people and in shifts.

"Their training areas have been identified, some of the people from whom they get money have been identified," she said. "They are being paid 500 per burning and 1,000 per death."

The information, she said, comes from about 100 monitors and a network including prominent individuals and community-based organizations given pre-election training in researching human rights violations.

She said information is being compiled in a report to be published this week and given to another body, the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, for investigation by appropriate authorities.

Pause
Current Time 0:00
/
Duration Time 0:00
Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00
Fullscreen
00:00
Mute
The state-funded commission, as well as a bishop and a police superintendent, agree that a lot of the violence seemed orchestrated. However, they stop short of claiming money changed hands, and both camps vying for the presidency strongly deny it.

Gangs wielding bows and arrows, machetes and stones killed scores of people in the central Rift Valley. They set ablaze hundreds of buildings, forcing more than 100,000 people, mainly Kikuyus, from their homes and farmlands. Victims have identified their attackers as ethnic Kalenjin and members of opposition leader Raila Odinga's Luo tribe.

Odinga's spokesman, Salim Lone, said the charges of payment were "wild propaganda."

"I cannot categorically say that no politician is doing that (paying militias)," he said, but he bristled at the suggestion that his party, having denounced the violence, could at the same time be fomenting it.

Odinga says Kibaki must take the blame because the violence was ignited by his alleged theft of the election.

Maina Kiai, chairman of the state-funded human rights body, said that in response to attacks on Kikuyu, government politicians have recruited the Mungiki, a Kikuyu gang blamed for a string of beheadings carried out in Nairobi's slums this year.

Kiai said the government has promised Mungiki immunity in return for protecting the Kikuyu. He said his information came from several sources, including Mungiki members. In a crackdown last year, police killed dozens of alleged Mungiki.

Government spokesman Alfred Mutua said Kiai's charge was "preposterous. There is no truth to it."

The police superintendent of the toubled western town of Kisumu, Simon Kiragu, agreed the violence was orchestrated.

"The trouble started not even 15 minutes after the announcement (of the election results)," he told the AP.

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2016, 11:10:12 PM »

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #31 on: July 27, 2016, 12:41:00 AM »
Giakaibei Secondary School, Nyeri

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #32 on: July 27, 2016, 12:41:56 AM »

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #33 on: July 27, 2016, 12:49:27 AM »

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #34 on: July 27, 2016, 01:22:17 AM »

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #35 on: July 27, 2016, 12:43:05 PM »
Quote
Nation Breaking: Nyahururu Boys High School dormitory on fire. Fire fighters from Laikipia County battling inferno. Area OCPD at the scene.

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #36 on: July 27, 2016, 02:49:26 PM »
Suffice is to say the fires will end in two - three weeks when the extended second term comes to an end. I shall not update this anymore. Average 8 schools burn daily.

Quote
SCHOOL FIRES: Keringet Boys closed, 11 Mai Mahiu students arrested

Offline Georgesoros

  • Moderator
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 4860
  • Reputation: 7043
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #37 on: July 27, 2016, 02:59:48 PM »
How come the president hasnt said much???
If it was USA all leaders will be talking on top of their voices, from governors all the way to Obama.

Offline Simanova

  • VIP
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 917
  • Reputation: 4335
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #38 on: July 27, 2016, 03:05:10 PM »
May be he is sitting in a state house window writing poems about it.

How come the president hasnt said much???
If it was USA all leaders will be talking on top of their voices, from governors all the way to Obama.

Offline Kichwa

  • Moderator
  • Enigma
  • *
  • Posts: 2886
  • Reputation: 2697
Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #39 on: July 27, 2016, 11:23:03 PM »
In most countries Matiangi should have resigned by now.  This is a leadership issue because it is going on all over the country.  The president should drop everything and address this issue ASAP.
"I have done my job and I will not change anything dead or a live" Malonza