The next few months - Mt kenya elite will throw anything to win back their gema people. For first time ever Mt kenya people have left it's leadership - and hitch camp in Ruto as they are set to clear the board - and bring in new elite.
They will provoke Ruto and Kalenjin - poke fingers on the eyes - and all that - in the hope that Kalenjin will do or say something stupid that would reopen the old wounds - and they will come back as saviour.
But surely after 4yrs they should be aware that a trained warrior is trained warrior
Before we went to MTC - we put fire on all our arms and legs - cigarette butts like - yo remove the soft tissue inside a plant -light it and let it burn completely on your skin - causing big circular burn- it would heal as circular tattoos -repeated in many rows on all arms and legs--pretty ugly to look at for those who went to the extreme- for like a year before you had to shows those tatoos like rows on legs and arms
- and then during one month before MTC you're eyes would literally be poked.
For a man should not flinch.Kalenjin culture is based on stoicism. It what makes kalenjin good in tough sport like Marathon where pain level is really tested over a long time.
Tricks and Strategies that worked on Raila - will not work on Ruto.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-one-kenyan-tribe-produces-the-worlds-best-runners/"When Manners was 12 years old, he lived for a while in Kalenjin country, where his dad was an anthropologist. And as a boy, Manners noticed his friends had scars on their arms and legs where they'd burned themselves with hot coals.
The Initiation Ceremony
Manners soon learned that they were practicing for an initiation ceremony, a rite of passage that is all about enduring pain."
