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Post by Onyango Oloo on Oct 17, 2005 1:41:44 GMT 3
The Yes supporters are getting younger by the day...Compared to....Lovers of the Orange fruit....
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Post by job on Oct 17, 2005 3:55:14 GMT 3
Oloo,
That first picture is actually worth a billion words. It was shot at the venue where Kibaki proclaimed the birth of three new districts to these lovely elementary school-age kids.
Lord, they must have been subjected to quite a heavy dose of Constitutional & Jurisprudence matters, none of which they can easily grasp.
I however hope your friend Kiraitu's billions ( "mbirrions" sounds more Kiraituesque ) offered some candies or banana's in exchange for their bombardment with vocabulary alien to their ABCD's, but full of legal & Constitutional terms.
Job.
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Post by mugogo on Oct 17, 2005 3:55:56 GMT 3
I did not care to analyze the pic but you are right! What are the kids doing in a political rally? what if violence broke out?
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Post by abdulmote on Oct 17, 2005 23:08:16 GMT 3
Talking of pictures. The oranges appear to have lost their colour as well! The color 'Orange' is only visible on the T-shirts, but the actual fruits are now green. Soon they may have to revert to lemons, and maybe 'matoke' for want of a better representation.
I wonder what the eventual impact will turn out to be. I just hope that we don't end up having a whole generation who are victims of wako's draft with vitamin C defficiency and can only think like monkeys craving for the fruits!
Seriously thinking of it, someone ought to carry out an extensive study on the impact of the Referendum campaigns as a result of the 'overconsumption' of the two fruits! I would certainly be interested in reading the results. Anybody cares to hypothesise?
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Oct 18, 2005 0:34:43 GMT 3
Stop using children, say lobbies
Story by NATION Correspondent Publication Date: 10/18/2005
Children's rights organisations yesterday asked politicians to stop using minors to entertain guests in campaign rallies.
And school grounds must not be used as campaign venues by either the Banana or the Orange camps, they said.
Sixteen lobbies said the use of children amounted to exploitation because they were not eligible to vote.
"Children are being asked to recite poems, sing and dance at rallies putting their lives in danger," representatives of the umbrella National Children Caucus on Constitution Reform told a press conference in Nairobi.
Past meetings in Mombasa, Bungoma and Wajir held within or near schools by the two groups put children at risk as they were caught up in the violence.
"There is a lot of tension and insecurity. We are urging politicians to moderate their campaigns as responsive and peaceful leaders, " said Mrs Leah Ambwaya of the Child Life Trust.
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Post by njoroge on Oct 18, 2005 0:55:34 GMT 3
Children should not be used to entertain guests at rallies and they should never be at such rallies where violence might occur. Besides, these politicians' children and grand-children are wisely kept away at such comfy places as Splash.
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