My grandmother has a framed picture in her living room, the year was 1973 exactly ten years after independence she is wearing a mini-skirt her friends are also in different pictures in the house dressed elegantly in the same manner, their hair were well flattened with a hot comb, the other half that maketh me refer to it as a "giciini" a story for another day. So this stupid hoi pollois for lack of a better word have decided to be fashion cops and way lay ladies on the streets like hungry hyenas and put their filthy hands on them to undress them ("kae mutoe ngai", don't you know God?)
What actually brings bile to my mouth is the fact that even after this heinous act being highlighted on national television,even after a demonstration by Kenyans(note not women but Kenyans) this mad men still have the audacity of repeating this. (That's why I have actually concluded that they are insane)
For a fully fledged man ( by fully fledged I mean one who can actually enhance the biological process of conception ), born of a woman, and one with the ability to profess some amount of feelings towards the opposite sex, to strip a woman and have not even an atom of conscience in them it shows a broken society. A broken people with broken morals. Infact the homo habilis did not live like this they had more values. If you really want to justify the stripping of ladies then undress those young boys who live nothing to imagination when they show us their behinds sagging their trousers So low that it's a hindrance to their walking. Strip them and we will say that you are morally upright.
All is not lost though and my reason for saying this is justified. If you look at the areas where this is happening something common is that they are inhabited by a people who have refused to think. A people who have shoved their brains in their pockets literally. Am not saying that all touts are bad but if even the good ones allow this to happen then where are we headed?
Would you undress your mother? Would you undress your sister? Would you undress your wife? ( well the last one is rhetorical don't answer) but if you wouldn't do all that in public then don't do it to anyone. A word to the ladies now as much as you want people to respect you please try and dress appropriately. There is an old Greek proverb that says "you show what you want to share". So please watch your dressing .
I have been writing this piece in a matatu. I have gotten home now and since i do not want to be stripped also I will take a Bodaboda to the house. Have a strip less week.
By Ng'ang'a kibiru
