Study of a peculiar society, that loves pain- Kenya

"Oh ye foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" a voice cries from the desert. The annointed one remarked at the thought of the stupidity of his people.

Applies to all of us just right about now. The hue and cry about our politicians literary fists-on-the collars of the salaries team is a scene to adore. I mean it. We, the people so fondly in love with quick fixes and aversion of the truth. A people embalmed in the romance of collective amnesia which recurs every five years is a comedy of  sorts. Get a jar of popcorn and watch it replay in an exact same manner.

Here is the reality your eyes will see once you become honest with yourselves, foolish Galatians (oops..Kenyans)...

We get the leaders we deserve. Our leadership is a reflection of our society. The rot in our leadership is a direct mirror image of the rot in the most basic unit of society- the family.

How many of us are honest at our workplaces? How many make sure they work for the last coin paid even when nobody is watching? How many of you still yell at the top of your voices how you are underpaid yet you spend significant amount of time paid for, mostly by taxpayers for the civil servants, sipping lattes and catching up on bogus stories while serving the public an enhanced menu of impunity?

The difference between our leaders and us is that they are in the glee of the media. The reel always rolls at their actions.

Speaking of the same leaders, an alien in Kenya would be forgiven to think that our leaders are manufactured from some exclusive depot and fed on us without our say. False. We elect them. Given many choices, we make the wrong ones. Again and again.

Our leaders remain better than us. At their point of need, like salary increment, they speak in one voice. At our point of need,like  the elections, we disintegrate into un-useful tribal shadows.

We get the leaders we deserve. Change comes from us. From within us. The only thing that changes from top down is food as it evolves into you know what. Our change must be from bottom up. You know how.

As a society that always votes against its own interests every other 5 years, who would sympathize with us.

WHO IS 'KILLING' OUR LEADERS...HERE

It is not debatable, at the age of 32 Alexander the Great had almost literally conquered the world. Every conquest seemed to go his way or no way. Fast and furious. Just as fast as success had come his side of the divide so did death.

A ten day history of a mysterious illness left him lifeless, again literally. The ‘great’ had been conquered and vanquished by the muscles of his own body. In the 10 days he could not breath leave alone unsheathe the sword.

Nobody has ever explained to our conviction what killed Alexander the great, some say it was due to malaria. Others speculate that it was typhoid, typhoid would make its victim vomit and also has central nervous system manifestations.

For the world’s love of drama and intrigue, poisoning was the most plausible explanation. For Alexander’s  symptoms of vomiting, tremors and seizures, a plant in the genre of alkaloids known as belladonna was accepted as the most likely instrument used to stop this seemingly unstoppable man.

George H. W. Bush, in 1992 had an incident almost similar to what the Late Mutula Kilonzo had. After a tennis match, which he participated while in Japan, it is documented that the former US president vomited until he was unconscious. His was more dramatic as it was captured live by ABC news, a head of state vomiting to unconscious would definitely be attributed to poisoning, what else could it be? He later confessed having suffered from a typical flu which was confirmed.

A joke is made in Japanese that if they say they will make you ‘Bushu suru’they mean they will make you vomit and pass out like Bush.

There are several causes of sudden death. Here are some of them;

1.       Cardiac death; usually sudden and would occur within an hour or so. Vomiting may be involved together with frothing of the mouth.

2.       Respiratory; where vomiting may precede it and aspiration of the vomitus leaves you as dead as a dodo

3.       Herbal medication and some herbs we use as spices may actually be poisons. I recently experienced a case where 3 children from Giriama died suddenly after feeding on some cassava species. Their parents remained well and alive.

4.       Poisoning, accidental or intentional, may require a high index of suspicion in order to collect and process the appropriate toxicology specimens, particularly if a volatile substance is suspected. Some poisonous agents, such as cyanide, can only be smelled by genetically-able individuals (the classic burnt almond smell) and thus may go unnoticed

The onus task lies in the hands of the pathologist to interpret whatever findings they get astutely. Sensationalism must be avoided. A negative autopsy is an expected outcome, similarly a positive finding does not necessarily point towards the cause of death. It is said, a person can live with a disease which won’t necessarily be the cause of his death.

To that end, I ask, who killed Alexander the great?

#RIP Hon Mutula Kilonzo and the 3 Giriama boys 

THE SAD DAY WHEN 'ANYONE' BECAME A SPECIALIST IN HEALTH MATTERS

“ If the frog came out of the water and told you that the crocodile is sick, would you not believe him?”

Chinua Achebe

WHY THE HEALTH DOCKET CANNOT BE MANAGED WITH A PEN BUT A STETHOSCOPE

Mr. President got it awfully wrong. If health was a direction West, he looked East and walked on whistling.

UNDERSTANDING THE PROSPECTS OF FREE HEALTHCARE IN KENYA

President Uhuru Kenyatta made a promise that there will be free health services in all Health centers and Dispensaries. In addition to this, he made a further undertaking to scrap off user fees for maternal and child health care.

I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT SOON YOU WILL BE KILLED TOGETHER WITH YOUR FAMILY

In my line of calling, I meet many deaths. I am surrounded by death. Everyone who comes to ask for my rituals is usually trying to reschedule this inevitable reality. Some die sooner, some die before I get to see them. Some just die anyway.

THE ‘HEALTH PROMISE’ MUST BE KEPT; THE 100 DAYS COUNTDOWN BEGINS

Russian - American novelist Ayn Rand remarked "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."