Lang'ata Primary- Land Grab, school kid teargas - global symbolism

[gout]

school kids have always demonstrated even before mwangi was born over all manner of things ...headteachers removal, teachers sexual exploits, land grabs, results.....

[skatebodi]

what an image ..as much as we will try to shift blame to Mwangi this will trend in the hearts of Kenyans forever and I think globally

Ah, boiyo, now I have to spend the whole morning explaining that where the kids were teargassed is not in Kenya, it is in Langata (Rayila's constituency), where Kenyan police had gone to restore piss after some young terrorists went to disturb a developer's contractor who had been hired by a powerful hotelier. Sirikaal, do you know how hard you make my life? I walk around with my head bowed because quite a few people know I am a Kenyan! People should refine their manners to suit their status...and ...stop grabbing land and grab intangibles. If you must steal, please try to be tactful! If you grabber feel insulted, go hang!

Sketie

[mya88]

mya88,
Attacking kids is barbarism
Mobilizing them to destroy private property is worse.
just for a second imagine if some or even one kid was hit by a car or was crushed by the falling wall. All this in absence of them cops. Who would we be blaming? The grabber or the activists who engaged the kids, or the teachers?

I don't condone the grabbing, in fact I pray that the thugs will have no kids to share their loot with, may it be scattered among their enemies

You really are one hell of a pastor. Is Kenya now Palestine, where children are fair game? Any country that engages in such barbaric acts against children in broad daylight in this time and age, when there isn't any war going on, has no place in modern society. There was nothing violent except for kids being kids until the cops started teargassing them. and to think there is a busy traffic right by the side where kids could run by the road and be mowed down......simply unbelievable.

[vooke]

mya88,
We have the benefit of hindsight and that is blinding us to the facts at hand.
The kids need protection we all agree not brutality but I have serious problems with endangering young lives for whatever reason.
Note this is not the first time kids have protested. What you can't run away from is this was no peaceful protest. They was on rampage cheered by the activists

[RV Pundit]

The Land grabber provoked the kids, their parents, the school management and activist. There was no other way around this. This has been modus operandi that nearly all schools in Nairobi have used to wade off or reclaim their land.

Don't blame the victim.

mya88,
We have the benefit of hindsight and that is blinding us to the facts at hand.
The kids need protection we all agree not brutality but I have serious problems with endangering young lives for whatever reason.
Note this is not the first time kids have protested. What you can't run away from is this was no peaceful protest. They was on rampage cheered by the activists

[Omollo]

vooke

Let's face the facts frankly:

• The grabbers hoped that the activists would turn up there on their own be thoroughly beaten and arrested then charged;
  
• Their anger is not about endangering children - when did rich people start caring about children and the children of the poor anyway?
  
• They are mad because the activists outsmarted them by placing the police in a compromising situation. They are angry because of being out-tricked!
  

Notice now how even the Church is coming out for the Children. The Kenyan Clergy has been pro-Jubilee since 2013. They came out to approve the laws that would allow the police to teargas children. Today they have found good company! Even political fossils like Mwatela who never uttered a single critical word in his life, is on board for the Children!
Here is the list:
Full Uhuru Public Apology
COTU
Tobiko
Mwatela

[vooke]

Whatever irks the grabbers is least of my worries, activists exploiting kids is IT, other parents' kids.

vooke

Let's face the facts frankly:

• The grabbers hoped that the activists would turn up there on their own be thoroughly beaten and arrested then charged;
  
• Their anger is not about endangering children - when did rich people start caring about children and the children of the poor anyway?
  
• They are mad because the activists outsmarted them by placing the police in a compromising situation. They are angry because of being out-tricked!
  

Notice now how even the Church is coming out for the Children. The Kenyan Clergy has been pro-Jubilee since 2013. They came out to approve the laws that would allow the police to teargas children. Today they have found good company! Even political fossils like Mwatela who never uttered a single critical word in his life, is on board for the Children!
Here is the list:
Full Uhuru Public Apology
COTU
Tobiko
Mwatela

[RV Pundit]

Activist are not blame. Our police have failed to come up with a workable formula to allow and handle demos. These incident will re-occur until our police recognise that every kenya has a right to demonstrate, picket and engage in CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.Police themselves regular jam communication and go on go slow everytime they want salary increment.

Our police should invite activist and other kenyas to develop guideline for peaceful and effective demos.

For instance it was well know there would be demos on that ground..the police choose to go there with heavy equipment..instead of meeting the school and activist..and agreeing on how the demos would be conducted peaceful.

Whatever irks the grabbers is least of my worries, activists exploiting kids is IT, other parents' kids.