Resumo de Status Quo - Anthony W.Kimani

STATUS QUO

This is an abstract depicting the injustices pervading
sahau villlage (a remote village in rural kenya )
The needy are oppressed by their leaders
The policemen turfed out people out of their drinking dens so that they
could listen to the area member of parliament .The local women?s guild had
invoked chief mlafi to come to their aid as their children had immersed
themselves in illicit liquor and were on the verge debauchery .
"Unlicensed liquor will be history in sahau.please vote wisely for
the betterment of sahau as elections are near "
These were some of the platitudes from the mp's discourse .Mr zindua a teacher
analysed the mp's sentiments.?These were the normal empty talks from our
leaders who only frequent their constituencies whenever elections are nigh
." "Ofcourse -the refrains they always gibber about .Where are the
farms for our young men to till? Where are the jobs to prevent them from the
said dalliance ?can the sahau youths really afford legalised beer
?"Observed his colleague Mr.kandia .
Three weeks after the mp's visit ,there was pandemonium in a farmers
farm .The workers were demanding their arrears amongst other grievances
."Those of you who shall not wait can leave my farm !
,"thundered Mr Magegu the farms owner .
The workers are not cowed by the farmer's threats .They resolved to seek
help from their local chief ."Thats very serious! I will see to it that he
is summoned here immediately " remarked the chief .
at about 5 pm in the evening the farm labourers converged at the police station
where the chief took no time to deliver his verdict ."Nyinyi mnacheza na
kazi? (are you playing around with work).don?t you know that Mr Magegu is an
important man in Sahau ?". If you don't resume your duties now ,you shall
all be sacked ".
the workers were dumbfounded ; they only realised later that the chief
had been suborned to cover-up the matter .they had no choice other than to endure untold mistreatment at the farm.
Mr Zinduas literature class was in session .He was expounding the Animal
Farm with his students .Wambui was the daughter of Mr kamau (a farm laborer
in Magegu's farm )."My father is a casual worker in a farm .He receives
peanuts and that is why he and his workmates downed their tools recently -they
sought help from the chief who later bribed by the farm owner .There was tumultuous
applause from the class after the sad narration .
the teacher stressed that it was crystal clear that the local leaders worked in
cahoots with the oppressive employers .
The following morning ,Mr zindua was summoned to the
principal's office .The corpulent school head had eavesdropped on the teacher's
tirade to the authorities ."There was absolutely no sedition in my
comparison .The students are disillusioned from political shenanigans pervading
Sahau;as a matter of fact,one of my students happens to be the daughter of one
of Magegu's employee ".Expostulated the literature teacher ."I
see,how brilliant of you to give such pertinent examples to your students
.please forgive my petulence ",begged the school head .
Two months later ,Mr Zindua who was now obsessed with emancipating Sahau
from repression ,convened a meeting .Most farm workers, fishermen and villagers
attended ."My fellow villagers, for how long will we suffer under the thralldom
of these parasites ?They live by our sweat yet very few of us can even afford
to travel to the city ! Are you aware that your chief Mr Mlafi, Mr Magegu and
other callous business men do export your fish ? what do you
get in return ? Morsels I tell you ! Mr Magegu is known to exploit his workers
and nothing is been done about it. We must boycott all activities starting
tomorrow(amid an applause from the crowd).Suddenly, the people were repulsed by
a gang of askaris(policemen)who pounced on every one they came across.People
scampered away and the teacher was not spared either as he too, skedaddled
away.The meeting was quelled in fifteen minutes.
A month after the meeting the chief and his two accomplices hired
emissaries to ascertain the teacher's drinking resorts .The following morning
he was found dead in an upstairs bar apartment .The patrons recounted how he
died after a binge the night before .
Sahau denizens cultivated inveterate hatred towards the authorities
.This forced them to vote out the current regime the following year .The state
commenced an inquest.

"Your honour ,Mr Zindua disclosed to me that chief Mlafi had
threatened him with death if he did not stop challenging the authorities
.Moreover ,Florence was the barmaid who served him beer on that fateful day
.Prior to her death she divulged to me that it was the chief and Mr Magegu who
forced her to lace his beer with poison. They gave her fifty thousand shillings
to keep mum over the incident ."
The judge observed that there was compelling evidence to link the two
with the murder of MrZindua and Florence
the bar maid ."I therefore sentence you to life imprisonment with no possibility
of parole .As for you Mr Tukule, you will serve 25 years in prison for
collusion and compromise of teaching ethics due to greed .
The three men wailed as the judge made his ruling Their
dream of maintaining the status quo was quashed .

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