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TOI
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A country of Big People and Little People
By SUNNY BINDRA
Posted Saturday, January 14 2012 at 16:47
In Kenya there are Big People and there are Little People.
There are very few Big People and very, very many Little People. The Big People call all the shots and make all the decisions, and the Little People obey.( Na hiyo ndiyo Maendeleo-Nyayo)
The slightly bigger Little People spend all their time and effort trying to become Big People because, if you are one of the Little People in Kenya, you are nothing.
It doesn’t matter how you became one of the Big People, as long as you are Big.(And stay Big)
Big People have many privileges. They ride ‘back-left’ in limousines, while Little People ‘kaa square’ in matatus.
Big People do not have to obey normal traffic rules and do not notice the gridlock around them, because they use journey time to rest and work in air-conditioned comfort.
Little People lose several hours a day marooned on clogged-up roads. But that’s fine, because the Little People’s time doesn’t really matter.
Big People are exempted from queues and general inconvenience. They can go to the front automatically and be served first, as all the Little People will make way for them. (DCJ Baraza!!)
Big People do not have to be searched or subjected to security checks, because they are too Big for that.
A Little Person attempting to impose any inconvenience on a Big Person will soon be made a Tiny Person.
Big People do not pay taxes. They are either given official exemptions, or they find more creative ways of escaping the net. (Oh! We’ve mortgages, funerals, tuition, and dowry for our third wife to pay for, etc)
Little People pay lots of taxes and pay for everything that the Big People do. Big People do not go to jail. (They loot poor people’s tax money including our children’s FPE’s money and poor dudes foot the bills)
They commit many crimes, but are too Big to be punished. As a result, they commit even more crimes and become even Bigger.
Little People are punished immediately for even the smallest misdemeanour, unless they are protected by Big People.
Big People are surrounded by lots of Little People called aides, assistants, drivers, bodyguards and relatives.
These Little People protect the Big People from other Little People and in return are made to feel like Slightly Big People.
Big People learnt long ago that there are many more Little People than there are Big People.
They realised that the only way to keep Little People from noticing they outnumber the Big People was to keep them in separate pens called Tribes. (Moi’s divide and rule policy)
Once the Little People were herded into these special pens, they could be controlled easily by the Big People who would warn them about the danger that comes from other Little People in other pens.
The good news for the Little People is that things may be about to change for them. For one thing, more than half of the Little People are now Very Young People, because the Older Little People had been too active in procreating Little People. (mama wa kando programme)
For another, the Little People now carry Little Devices that allow them to connect to all the world’s Little People.
This has allowed the Little People to realise that being forcibly kept Little is primitive.
Medium People
Many more of the Little People are also becoming Medium People and are asking why the Big People have it all their own way.
They are asking pesky questions and refusing to fetch the ball for the Big People.
The Little People are now realising they don’t have to be so Little after all. Some of the Big People are also realising that the exclusive Big life is not sustainable. (Big Man syndrome is OVER! Period guys)
Some day soon, Kenya will become a country for All People, where every person lives under the same rules and has the same rights; where anyone who has earned it on merit can become bigger; and where what is good for All People is what is done.
Then, we will read in our history books about the bad old days when only Big People mattered.
www.sunwords.com
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Many more of the Little People are also becoming Medium People and are asking why the Big People have it all their own way.
They are asking pesky questions and refusing to fetch the ball for the Big People.
The Little People are now realising they don’t have to be so Little after all. Some of the Big People are also realising that the exclusive Big life is not sustainable. (Big Man syndrome is OVER! Period guys)
Some day soon, Kenya will become a country for All People, where every person lives under the same rules and has the same rights; where anyone who has earned it on merit can become bigger; and where what is good for All People is what is done.
Then, we will read in our history books about the bad old days when only Big People mattered.
www.sunwords.com
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*The Big Gurus drink bottled water from London, England like Sir Mugane Charie Njonjo while the small fish drink water from Chania river and contract bilharzia, typhoid, cholera, tape warms etc.
*They sleep in muddy shelters with grass touched inflicted with flies while the big Gurus stay in stone walled structures.
*They retire on bamboo beds or animals skins while Bid man sleep on imported $4M beds from France (King Bokasa of the Central Africa Republic – 1979)
*Big man feed their dogs with steak while their small people die of starvation- (Emporor Haile Silassie of Ethiopia – 1974)
*Big man send their wives shopping in London and Washington, DC spending $8M of the poor people’s cash while little people shop at Gikomba’s one stop open market. ( Corazon Aquino of Phillippines)
*Big people fly off shore for medical attention at the small man’s expense while small people go hunting for Jua Kabwele.
*Big people send their kids to London for school while little people send theirs to Ntebere secretarial and Bookeeping Academy.
*Anything else?
Have fun TOI
· Submitted by keyplayer
Big People also assign themselves titles and inculcate them on the Little People. These titles make the Little People even smaller. Little People live in servants quarters or slums whereas Big People live in palaces in leafy suburbs.Little People have no choice but to rely on public health, roads, education etc. Big People go private.
Posted January 15, 2012 05:43 PM
· Submitted by karateka
It is good to note that the little people are learning to stand firm for their rights without fear. It is fear of being trampled by big people that has allowed big people to thrive while little people continue to become tiny. Courage is the key. So little people must courageously stand firm without aiming to become big themselves but rather for the purpose of securing dignity and equal treatment for all.
Posted January 15, 2012 02:50 PM
· Submitted by karateka
It is good to note that the little people are learning to stand firm for their rights without fear. It is fear of being trampled by big people that has allowed big people to thrive while little people continue to become tiny. Courage is the key. So little people must courageously stand firm without aiming to become big themselves but rather for the purpose of securing dignity and equal treatment for all.
Posted January 15, 2012 02:50 PM
· Submitted by viennagirl
Well said Bindra….i hope ill live to see that day when kenyans realise that they are incharge and the big people are only big coz we allow them to,….I cant wait for that revolution
· Submitted by koirotweet
One more thing. The little people make the big people rich in whatever they purchase and they kill one another for the big peoples comfort. wake up in the morning, the items you use to make breakfast,lunch,dinner all have been by the companies of the big men, buy cooking oil, flour, milk, maize flour, fuel, insurance, bus transport company, airtime, Name any brand you know and 99% of your presidential candidates are made rich from every item you purchase. You wont believe how much we make them rich.
Big People have many privileges. They ride ‘back-left’ in limousines, while Little People ‘kaa square’ in matatus….hahahahaaaa..Sunny Bindra-When He writes..u do wanna miss out!
Posted January 15, 2012 12:21 PM
· Submitted by Treaty
Hehhehehehehehheeeee Nice one Mr Bindra!