...of weekends and leisure times

another weekend is here. but this is not going to be a good one. in fact most nairobians are increasingly finding it hard to while away the long weekends. kenyans way of whiling away time had been laid out easily until the bovine disease checked in. hitherto, all you needed was enough quid for 2 kilos of nyama choma, enough for beer and some friends then the weekend would pass unnoticed while you watch premier league on big screen! in fact in hope nairobians will now find a better pastime than eating nyama choma and premier league soccer while the RVF threatens meat lovers away. i always find it boring that departmental get togethers invairably have beer and nyama choma. there are other ways like going to the theatre, nature walks, picnics and even outdoor games. but those are unnairobian.

if you are a nairobian and you dont watch pirated copies of 24 and prison break then you cant be counted. however there are more refreshing DVDs from kenya institute of education. they normally video tape all those drama festivals pieces including dances and all. in fact yu can tell them to customize the DVD for you so that you get upto 8 hours of high quality kenyan music and drama entertainment or watch plays of your favorite schools. that will cost you only between 600 and 1000 bob. if you watch those national fetival winners, you will be shocked (pleasantly) that you are a kenya. it will make you have a reason to jivunia kuwa mkenya!

but on another note, butcheries are for the first time running a promotion. buy 1 kilo of meat and get 1/4 kilo free! RVF has scared all meat eaters and chicken is almost becoming extinct in these parts. i heard fish is going like water. where butcheries were selling 100kilos a day, they can now manage only 20 kilos and so on. however the bovine virus is not letting up and the other day even a vet who performed post mortem on one of the animals succumbed.

Elsewhere, security or lack of it is threatening to roll back all the gains of the kibaki administration. i read in horror that the UN had given its warning on the situation to its employees. this is happening at a time when the UNEP is being considered for relocation to europe. the UN said that the kenyan authorities did not have the capacity to deal with crime in the country. probably what we lack is the will. the other day, the police commissioner came on TV and he kept on going on and on that they are understaffed and under equiped thats why they cant stop crime. but the last time i checked, policemen with guns were arresting pple as young as 16 for not having ID cards! if they were truly understaffed, you would expect the commisioner to put them to better use than looking for pple manga mangaring. i know in the slums , young pple are sometimes arrested on the way to or from the duka sometimes carying cooking fat or unga. while thugs are killing pple on the roads. on another note, i wanted to ask Ali, who appears to be a gentleman, why he accepted the appointment even though he knew he did not have the training or the experience for the job. but i couldnt get through. in fact i wanted to put it to him that his being plucked from a diff force caused morale crisis in the police force. because by that, Kibaki was sending a signal that he did not have confidence on anyone else in the police. time has come for africans to take self responsibility. u dont just take up and job and sit on it for the sake. if you cant do it, leave it to those who can.

but while that was going on, the NSE was experiencing a beating and pple were fleeing like mice from a sinking ship. good news is the bottom seems to have been hit and the motion is back up.

odegle tip in a long long time! --- huge capital gains are more likely in less developed and unstable markets like USE and even zimbabwe. high returns do not necessarily mean better economy. the high risk high return principle is really true. the ugandan bourse is doing quite well as in the kenyan counterpart. short term falls should not worry you unless yu see a reall danger like war, or increased cost of business.