Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:35:22 -0800 [09:35:22 AM CST]
From: boniface onyango
Subject: Re: kisumu
Thathi,
This is just to re-enforce that you will never see a Luo eating snakes just because of Hunger. Just to ask you, have you ever heard that the govt of Kenya is taking relief food in Luo nyanza? Even though there is poverty due to politics of this country, Jaluo or Jaruo will never eat snakes due to hunger. the guy who ate snake at obunga estates ni Mtiriki-Luhya community. Get it right.
Bonny
— On Wed, 1/28/09, Felix Otiato wrote:
From: Felix Otiato
Subject: Re: kisumu
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 6:31 AM
Since I was born i have never heard of hunger ravishing Nyanza like other parts of the country. The people who can complain are the poor who are broke but it is hard to witness acute food shortage in Nyanza. A luo can never eat snakes. What would a snake huge enough to be eaten doing in Nyawita? This is not rocket science: the snakes found in green or semi green climates (like lake shores) are too tiny (and largely harmless). That guy was just trying to feature on TV and got the animal from somewhere drier. Mtiriki kama ana njaa si arudi kwao-he is spoiling our name!!! Thathi should have asked before making a conclusion.
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Regards,
Felix Otiato
0722986617/0733435587
On 1/28/09, Omondi Amos K’Ogal wrote:
Then why say Kisumu aas the headline. He should have said Hunger in Kenya. I still hold that Luo’s are very proud men, thats why you will find a Mzee, hungry, with a suit, looking after his cows ontop of a mountain. PERIOD.
On 1/28/09, Joyce Opondo wrote:
Hey Wanabidii,
To come to Thathi’s defence, Someone was indeed featured eating a snake on NTV last night in Nyawita just outside Kisumu town. That man may have been a Luo or a Kisii (who are very many in Nyawita), a Kikuyu or a Chonyi or from any tribe. Kenya is cosmopolitan. He said he was eating it due to hunger. However, the reporter was skeptical and said that he could have been doing it for sometime and this time had no option when he was witnessed eating it except to say it is due to hunger.
People have been hungry for decades and decades. I have never heard that they resort to eating snakes. However, snakes are eaten in Thailand. If you have ever traveled by Singapore airlines, then you have probably eaten snake and thought what a sweet meat dish that was, he he he.
Just my bit,
J
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Joyce Opondo
P O Box 2589
KISUMU.
Tel: 0720801165
On 1/28/09, Maryann Wanjiru wrote:
Jane,
Is that a threat by any chance?
Im sure he must have seen it somewhere for him to tell us, i mean snake eating in kisumu caused chaos in 2007???
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:29 PM, JANE OLOO wrote:
Renolds
I agree wholeheartedly. It is attitudes like that of Thathi that resulted in the chaos of 2007. Be careful what you say Thathi. Others may pay the price for your carelessness,
Jane
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JANE OLOO
On 1/28/09, RENOLDS CHEPTUMO wrote:
Thathi,
That is an insult to the people of Kisumu, and even if I am not a luo myself, I want to stand up against what “you understand”. I mean why did you have to make such a posting in a forum where people seek to interract and exchange ideas? is it that you lacked something better to say? or is it that you are got up with the tribalism cancer engulfing our country?, to be fair to you, if at all it is true that the people there are eating snakes because of hunger, then we should be ashamed of it and it is not something to be joked about.
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*From:* Omondi Amos K’Ogal
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:11:05 PM
*Subject:* Re: kisumu
STOP it please. Kisumu guys are very proud (luo), thats why they rejected ‘donation’ from DOMINION. They will never eat snake, while you can just cross over and get rech everywhere.
I doubt if there is a place you can get a snake to be eaten.
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Omondi Amos K’Ogal
Tel: 0720801165
On 1/28/09, Bernard Thathi wrote:
I understand that foreigners are flocking kisumu to see the second wonder of snake eaters due to hunger rather than to see the ancestral home of obama
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Luos hates corrupted politiques and they can’t eat snakes even if there stands biting hunger.L uo wanted
the president to be well paid not to entre corruption
but President is using his mad wife to buy maize and shell at profit for state house shame shame!L ady kibaki is a known mupu mbavu and she is always shameless.The speaker will defend her for no wrong doing but kenya knows that smoke without fire exist nowhere.M adame kibaki has told kenyan to eat wild roots while she is eating caviar and drinking champs!
Kibaki stole election and is paid for a weak leadership and his now lying that kenya is affected by
world crisis as if kenya is also the G8 .World expert
does not understand how failed state of kenya can be affected; maize problem is kibaki’s own making to have stolen election and he must face justice for the lose of life during his corrupt rule,kenya are fedup with yegnesh,goldenberg,anglo leasing,grand regency,triton and now maize kibaki must resign-OPADO
Am a kikuyu(nyumba ya mumbi) and I am proud of it,but I cant stand these arrogance of tring to be holier than thou.There are kikuyu who are fed up with corruption but creating an impression of luos being Angels is absurd and untollerable.
that was a Luo who ate the snake, i hear snake’s meat tastes like fish, he.
so whom are you kidding that the jaduong never ate the snake. on saying that your snakes are small, what about that idol of yours named …named….. you guessed it right! omieri how small is or was it? stop pulling our legs bwana