Man Killed By Cart Kericho Town.

 

 

By John ambuli

There occurred an accident in Kericho town where by a cart rider lost control of his loaded cart and ended up hitting an electricity pole and died. According to our source, the old man, popularly known as Muiruri at the Kenya co-operative Creameries Depot (KCC) in Kericho Town, loaded his cart with maize chaff at the Halis flour mills on Tengecha road in the town after he got the contract from one of the staff members of the factory. The destination of the cargo was somewhere neighboring the Fountain Primary School,that  neighbors  the Cereals and Produce Board Depot in Kericho Town.

It is said that on reaching the slope down the road towards the Municipal Council of Kericho garbage dumpsite, the deceased and his turn boy lost control of the cart after it overwhelmed them in speed due to the normal effects of the force of gravity and when they reached the bumps, the cart tossed them into the air very hard that he lost his turn boy. So, he was left alone with the cart and he wasn’t able to control it down the slope and so he thought that if he hit the electricity pole that was in front of him with the cart, it would stop and save him from getting hurt if the cart went off the road.

The cart tossed him in to the air and then he hit the pole very hard that he fell unconscious instantly and then he died a few minutes later in the hands of the doctors of the Kericho Referral Hospital After his turn boy called a motorcycle taxi that took him to the Hospital.

His carcass was said to have been stored at the Hospitals Mortuary.

The Incident Took Place between eleven O’clock and Mid-day on the twenty fourth day of the month of august this year.

The Cursed Cart of Kericho Town .

 

By John Ambuli

 

 Most of us don’t believe in spirituality and witchcraft in this universe because they don’t provide us with enough evidence as to why events happened or why some things exist. They only come at the scene of the event and claim that this was witchcraft or spirituality.

 In this country, you cannot call someone a witch or demon until you can prove them beyond common sense in the court of law that they are the cause of events here and that they had evil motives behind the events and that it was sin against God or it was against the law of this country.

Because of all the logic that exists around all these, it is very hard to take someone to court that they bewitched you or they had such an intention behind events .It is very hard, , to pronounce such English vocabulary against your neighbours or workmates or just the general public in your environment .This is because if you do and they took you to court, you wouldn’t be able to provide enough evidence in your defence in the court. This is according to me but i have never had a chance to look at the Kenyan law about Religion, spirituality and witch craft.

That is according to  the naked eye!! But in real life some events are very hard to believe causing the poor little men of this country to come up with their own interpretation of the same story. Each and every one of them has their own version of the story so that there will be fifty seven million copies of the same story in this country if it were published in the newspapers. That is exactly how it happens and we end up with such queer idea likes demons have done this and demons have done that!!! Believe it or not readers, but that  is how it begins and people end up getting involved in more serious and safety or security threatening acts .For the Christians, The leader of the religion Jesus Christ was sacrificed, but for others, they get involved in such queers acts of offering sacrifices to get favours before the creator or just to make them happy.

This then settles slowly in to the people’s psychology and saturates in to their lives slowly, so slowly that they cannot notice it and then it becomes part of their lives.

Let us get back to what we were talking about. You see readers, there is a cart in Kericho town that has become a serial killer and everyone in the cart pushing trade in the town has started wondering what could be going on about  this cart .This cart has killed two people and hurt three more .one of them lost his teeth ,never to be recovered, another hurt his sides very bad around the Sambusa Hotel in Kericho town after he lost control of the cart and went with it in the  rain water channel and the rocks that he was carrying piled on him hurting him extensively. Then another one who was carrying bricks from the Abas Jiwa Shamji sand, ballast and building material selling site. He was trying to pass one of the bumps on the Kericho Nairobi highway, somewhere around the Ubora House that houses the Post Office. The Cart tossed him in to the air and when he landed back on to the ground, they hand changed positions and it landed on him, crashing him to death. And then, it is this latest incident at the public works offices in Kericho Town, just a few meters past  these offices down the road to the municipal garbage dumpsite .The same cart killed its driver in the same manner and left the residents of the area wondering about the resemblance in the way that it killed the people.

This is according to the info that was given to me by my sources he much that i can remember but there could be more because the cart has existed for about ten years or more. It could have killed or hurt more people.

That is why i said that it is hard to label someone or something as demonic or evil in that direction in that manner but when events of this kind come up repeatedly like this, you start looking for answers to these situations!! Could this cart be within these brackets or what?

Someone has lost his teeth on the same cart, then someone hurt his sides badly, then someone died on the highway and then last week, it killed someone near the garbage dumpsite. Don’t you think the list is too long readers!!

We are not engineers and none of has consulted an engineer to look at the cart, whether it was properly designed for use by humans for moving luggage from one spot to another in Kericho town or scan it for any engineering defects and things of that kind but somehow the cart is becoming a serial Killer !!! You cannot be sure that it won’t kill again!!!

And, could it be a curse or could it be demonic in away so that it keeps killing people like this. These carts are serviced and are well taken care of .You can’t say that it was because of mechanical malfunctioning  because we are all witnesses that the cart was in good working condition .That one ,the naked eye can give you . But the list of people who have been hurt on it is what is worrying us!!!

I didn’t mention anybody’s name or did i label any one anything, i don’t want to go to the courts, but what is happening is true and it stunned the residents of this town .It has caused a stir among the cart pushers in the town .

What can we call these situation readers? Demonic or evil spirits or what or bad luck? Just what is the right word or description for this situation? And what could be the right do against such situations. The cart doesn’t have mechanical defects, the drivers were experts with long time experience in the job and then they keep dying in the accidents!!!

Cart pushers have started asking each other questions !!!

 

 

 

 

Tea Plucking Tractors To ComeTo Kericho ,In Kenya.

By John Ambuli

Tea plucking is one of the toughest jobs on the farm. It requires a lot of physical fitness. The job requires only people who are perfect in health; anyone with any kinds of health problems does not have a chance of touching the leaf. The geographic conditions that the trees require in order for them to grow well are those that are hard for most human beings to withstand.

Tea plucking requires a lot of muscle and talent .One should be able to with stand the wet and cold climate of the highlands regions where tea does well in Kenya .In These areas most of the year is rainy, the kind of rain that lasts up to one and a half hours to two hours and where by all this time, the tea pluckers have no chances of leaving the field to go and shelter first, that is until the rain stops. It doesn’t happen like that in these places, once you step in to the fields and are between the bushes, there is no permission for you to get out until the time for closing work comes. That is how it was in those olden days when our parents were the cream of the tea pluckers in these tea estates.

In the tea estates, there was enough tea bushes to last all the employees a life time, meaning that they spent all their life time between the tea bushes or they spent at least a bigger percentage of their times between the bushes, plucking the leaf. Once you are employed and start working, you hardly touch anything different in your life apart from plucking the leaf. So, that way, this goes on to the list of hard jobs on the farm.

The rules and regulations that governed life on the tea estates were strict and were in favor of the tea bushes and not the man behind it. If you miss work abruptly without noticing the staff in charge, you have only one chance if you do it a second time, you are expelled from the service of the company and there is chances or room for an appeal or perhaps if you hard a wise union shop steward !

So, generally speaking ,only those who were best suited for the job ,managed to survive up to retirement .Those who could withstand working in the rain ,keeping the time of reporting to work, good relationships with your neighbors in the camps ,those who could pluck enough leaf to provide for enough money at the end of the month ,those who could withstand the cold temperature in the mornings and when it rained and so on. Our parents were among the best because they managed to survive all this and retired among cheers from the company staff and workmates.

That was that, we were taken to school, lived a good western life and got civilized etc. due to the tea bushes in the Kenyan highlands i Kericho. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this!

The tea estates were labor intensive and provided a lot of job opportunities for the then under educated or completely uneducated populations of this country immediately after the independence of this country from colonialism. Most of the work in those places was done by hand up to the processing of the leaf in the factories. It required a lot of people to produce the tea.

So, now comes the twenty first century technology, it can produces what twenty thousand men can produce in just a little time and with a lot of ease!! The Technology, which is tractor drawn has replaced the pluckers in one day and without notice. If Teas was a major employer in this country, then everyone can guess for themselves what has happened to this country in terms of what the benefits of the tea estates were to this country.

We are an agricultural economy .We depended on the tea on a large part of the lives of the people who are involved in the industry, that is the low class people who earned a life from these jobs .So, when their work is left for the robots, then you can guess what life in the villages has looked like.

Those were the economic benefits of tea plucking jobs to this country. There are the side effects too. People got hurt because of spending a lot of time on those jobs. Others got permanent harm and others even died .They strained their bodies beyond the limits just to avoid losing their jobs and many more other side effects.

The twenty first century is here with us and man has advanced very much scientifically and in all other spheres of life. The engineers have invented the technology that will save man from suffering in those harsh climate conditions while harvesting the tea leaves for fear of it getting spoiled in the field due to over maturing. The technology is tractor drawn and it plucks the tea well just as the tea experts might have wanted it to be plucked.

The research and testing of the technology is said to have been completed and that we are waiting for arrival of the first consignment of the three hundred units of this technology On to the companies’ premises .These will bring to an end the hand plucking which will be expected to stop immediately.IT will be the end of suffering and torture that our great grandparents went through in the tea fields plucking tea. No more straining of  body tissue ,no more premature deaths due to dwelling for long hours in those harsh weather conditions for long periods of time and no more of everything that used to happen to man on the fields .The tractor can do it all in the place of human beings !

Though it might be hard to decide whether to have the machines to do the job instead of humans or not, but the job is tough and very demanding and the technology is a good alternative. The Technology is a savior!!

Those who are good at the Green leaf harvesting might want to stick to their jobs and they might find it hard to decide whether to embrace the technology or not but that is the truth!

There are the plantation workers unions and the rest of the types of the unions and they will have to decide whether to embrace the technology or not. We haven’t heard from them yet and we are waiting for their word. We expect them to put the pluckers together and decide as one body whether to embrace it or not. We are waiting for their word.