An Eldoret court has ordered a lonely pensioner to pay sh1bn for a desolate tiny piece of land. The retiree was given land by a President’s decree many years ago when the man was a civil servant in the Republic of Kenya.

Mr Moi, who lives in deprivation and loneliness at Sacho, after family friends and foe deserted him, survives on a civil servant’s meagre pension and the pittance his last born son can eke out of the family land.
For years he toiled as a servant of the people in various capacities. He is remembered as a teacher at Kabartonjo and Kabarnet. He did a stint, not a stunt, a stint in politics starting late 1940-ies to around 2012 when he retired to a life of penury. One of his prodigies, who his known to wantonly dish around wads of dough to churches, has been trying frantically to visit him, perhaps to donate cash for a project of his choice, perhaps for a political pat-on-the-head and some saliva on the chest, but his efforts have met misfortunes since he has always found mzee busy with his midday yoga.

During his heyday, mzee too used to dish cash. Some, he would dish out in harambees and some he would dish out of national coffers. But the later were just idle rumour mongers and enemies of development talking at the behest of their foreign masters. He got is bottomless pockets from the many philanthropists who thronged his abode and curtsied before him to donate to a project of his choice. Whenever he had a break from swinging boulders building gabions to stop mnyonyoko wa udongo (naughty children called it nyoko nyoko ya uwongo), he would while away his time dishing cash.
His prodigy prefers churches. Mzee was generous with certain schools. He was so much so generous to schools that sometimes a husband would get a foreign scholarship so that the headmistress could concentrate on the onerous task of empowering girls.

After all that service, the reward is to ask him to pay for land given to him on orders from above! Is it fair?
No! of course not.

This is a call to all girls who grew up on mzee’s generosity and milk. Be the only one of the ten who came back to say thank you. To sign up to our whataspp group where we are raising money to help the pensioner clear this fortuitous handle, leave a comment below.