Alma, I'll ask you a seemingly unrelated question: just on the roundabout between parliament and the intercontinental hotel there's a statue/monument of a castle surrounding mt.Kenya. Have you ever seen it?

Do you know its name?

Yesterday I saw it for the first time. Or rather when I went to the center in Nairobi, I expected something like it. And it was there.

If you look at this landmark and think about it, you won't ask the questions you've asked or make a wager. You'll be certain of very many things, and get very angry at alma.

Thank you @masukuma. Our brother here and his group of uthamaki defenders will never get that lesson.

The wealthiest community in Kenya is wahindi. It's only in the current parliament that they have three members. The highest in our history.

Who the hell protects their wealth ? The answer is nobody. Because they worked for their wealth. But those who stole tens of thousands of acres definitely need to galvanize enough idiots from their tribes to protect their stolen land.

What @alma and the rest of us are saying is, no we are not that dumb to help you protect what you stole from our grandfathers.

Muranga homeguards stole from Muranga peasants.
Kiambu and Nyeri too stole from their own.

True. Traditionally,Kikuyus were a very disciplined society and shunned vices such as stealing and killing. Unsocial behaviour like drunkenness was also heavily punished.

Something happened in the last century that changed the erstwhile noble community to thieves and murderers.

Speak for yourself. No one from my clan has ever been charged or convicted for theft or murder. Where do you get all this self hate from? Maybe you need to be put in some rehab to reformat your evidently faulty "head-drive".

I think Alma is having a meltdown. His pet perspectives have been getting defeats from which they cannot recover one by one the latest one being the doctors thing.

Let me attempt to be educative. During the colonial period there were lots of okuyos who were taken from their "ancestral lands" to work in the settler farms in the Rift valley. Mostly from Murang'a and Kiambu to form the RV diaspora cousins. Now around the 1950's the colonial govt then decided to kick out rift valley squatters. When they came back to ancestral lands they found the lands had been grabbed. Other militant squatters were thrown to Nyeri. Lacking land jobs or skills this core of landless peasants became the maumau to fight for their land from the settlers and the locals.

The Kiambu guys did not support maumau for the simple reason being close to Nairobi they were really enjoying economic benefits. Most of the grabbing was done using the land courts so the system worked in their favour.

Murang'a guys because of being herded into colonial villages got together formed companies and adopted business and took over lower Nairobi and also banking/sacco business. Nyeri guys were left with only education to advance opportunities in life and were taken like the poor sons of maumau remnants.

These divisions are purely economic sibling rivalry which formed during the colonial period.

After independence to protect wealth kiambu got into govt. with the vow that the presidential motorcade would never cross the chania river. Of course the motorcade crossed the river when Kibaki won with Kiambu firmly backing Uhuru in 2002 and also 2005 referendum.

Kiambu is still benefiting from its close proximity to the city. With mess in the city the middle class has made kiambu towns the dormitory towns which has really brought economic benefits to the locals. They have felt the economic growth under Jubilee I would expect high voter participation.

Now Kiambu MPs have now attacked Muranga biasharas(interest rate capping) which has made the Muranga guys say they want PK as Nairobi governor to protect their business interests or else. Nyeri is bitter they have no cabinet secretary and don't feel the growth like in the Kibaki era so the voter apathy is there.

This just pure nonsense of the power elite. Kenya is just a family business and your votes are just shares in the company.

Agreed. And home is not safe at all.My brother is more likely to kill me than a pokot warrior.
Do you know how many Kikuyus were killed by Mzungu during the Mau Mau uprising?

Very very few!

Okay, lets revisit history:

On Mau Mau:
1. The revolt didn't kick out the British
2. The most famous successful attacks made by the freedom fighters:

a)The killing of Senior Chief Waruhiu in Gachie*. He was a jewel of the colonial govt-even the Governor Sir Evelyn Baring attended his funeral
His murder led to the declaration of the state of emergency

b)Naivasha* police station attack in 1953

c) Lari* Massacre in 1953

*All 3 places are in Nyeri

The greatest advocate for the poor Kikuyu peasant was Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
Read 'Not yet Uhuru '

No wonder they had to initiate the oathing ceremonies soon after.