[ccr-kenya] Re: [Jambo] Kenyan Delegation Visit Mr. Calvin Burgess in Oklahoma

Ombok et al

Please do not insult those who live in the Yala Swamp environs by pretending that you came here for some hours and found that the situation was pathetic. When was that? Six years ago? Or today?

You may all expound your theories about development, slavery,etc. My take? That is rubbish ad infinitum.

Your stupidity does not put food on my table every evening. Dominion does!! Your theories do not assist me and my family when we fall ill. Dominion does!! Your theories have not reduced malaria in the Yala Swamp region, Dominion has!! Your theories have not ensured our children do not suffer kwashiokor and other malnutrition symptoms - Dominion has!!

I can now buy vegetables at a cheap rate from my neighbor Dominion and sell them as far as Kisumu through roads that Dominion has maintained. I can now access information about the world and about you people fighting over what was never anything to fight about, through facilities provided by Dominion!!

Where were you when we were hungry and naked and suffering? Where were you when our children would die of malaria because there were no medicines and no transport to the nearest District Hospital and no road to get there?

Where were you when our childlren were sitting on the mud floors in primary schools whose roofs were blown away every rainy season? Where were you when we could not send our children to further their education because there were no secondary schools in the area and when there were, they were not adequate for our children? We could not even afford to take them to boarding schools far away, leave alone the local ones? Where were you?

Where were you when Lake Basin Development Authority, a government body, put us to work in the Yala Swamp and did not pay us for our hard work? And we had no one to complain to? Where were you when our cotton could not be bought and the industry died due to lack of market and proper seed? Where were you when the government refused to put up an instant coffee factory here to absorb our robusta coffee??? Where were you when we had no hope? Where were you?

Carry your stupid theories and books and put them in the nearest pit latrine and wash off your mouths and your pea brains with jik. Just because someone is defending Dominion for the largesse we are receiving, he is not foolish and needs to go back to class 4? It is you who needs to wash out that socialist/communist crap from your head and pen. It has never helped us here anyway. The Luo say dhier ma kowadu ok mani nindo. Please, leave us alone with Dominion. We are seeing a lot of change taking place in our area because of Dominion. Change for the better!!! Even the government is looking to Dominion to do our roads, schools, hospitals, markets, etc.

You have nothing to offer except talk!!! Let me tell you, talk is cheap!!! Anyone can talk. Show us by action that you can provide an alternative. Then you can praise yourself. Right now you are just pathetic.

You have been abusing people in the diaspora who went to sit and talk with Calvin in Oklahoma. Those people are seeking a solution. You are just wiring up the internet with a load of crap about the Yala Swamp and you have nothing to offer.

Put up or shut up, friends.

Wanjiku