ACTS OF TERROR STUPID COWARDICE

Vengeance without reason

"2nd day of April 2015, I thought perhaps cock did not crow at the proper time,I remained awake as gunshot sounds rained everywhere on that day nothing will never blot out its memories out of my mind, just like a snake with a broken neck, I have promised myself not to look back at the incidence as what I saw was very inhuman and barbarous and I still wonder what goals did these terrorists achieved by merciless killing of innocent people"This was a testimony of Jerusha Moraa a student of Garrisa university Kenya who luckily escaped the terror invasion in their institution which left over 150 students dead when i caught up with her to console her being my neighbor at home.

I did not know what or how I could have help her get out of her trauma since I did not have substantial or no knowledge of counseling psychology. I was perplexed.Instead of acting like the legendary Democratius who seemed to have known virtually everything,or at least he thought to have known all, that one day when he was brought milk , tasted it and deduced that it came from a black she goat who had just produced her first kid.As an honest man I didn't have stuff to built up false inventions and give them plausibility as my friend Democratius did so I resolved to dig back to history and try to convince my friend that those who thought to be the most valiant,history tells us that they turned out to be the most unfortunate as triumphant defeats rivaled their victories and they created permanent enemies.

Have you ever heard of the Nzimba the cannibal group from the South of Africa who were used by the Portuguese during their conquest of the East African coastal towns and cities?They were very strong people who were rarely witnessed sick.In their land they had great abundance of fish and flock and ate them with no artifice other than cooked and roasted.It is also said about them that the first white man to have visited their land and rode a hoarse there,though he had had previous dealings with them on several earlier trips but on foot, was shot dead with arrows.when later they recognized that it was him they had killed ,they really regretted and they had to kill his murderer.They were acting in haste and would regret only after the damage had already been done.

One day while on war against their neighbors ,their captain who had a huge shield approached the enemies fortress where a stone was throne and hit him on the head and wounded him.The captain was made furious that he said"are you blind man?cant you see a shield as big as this that you have to throw a stone straight on my head?"With his furry ordered his men to kill and behead all the enemies they had killed.

after the war every man brought back as his trophy the head of an enemy he had killed and set it up at the entrance of his dwelling.They also brought with them prisoners which they treated so well for a period of time with all hospitality they could think of.later each man who had a prisoner called a great assembly of his acquaintances tied a rope to one of the prisoners arms by the end which he would hold a few steps away,for fear of being hurt then gave his dearest of his friends another arm to hold the same way.They then in the presence of all the assembly,kill him with their swords.this done they would then roast him and eat him in common and sent pieces of meat to their absent neighbors.This was not as people think for nourishment but for them a revenge since they would later release other prisoners to go and tell others what they have seen.

As the story goes we are told that even people of this community some had dissent views from what they thought was their best way to humiliate their enemy.For example when their captain once ordered them to carry the heads of their enemies on a pole.one of the soldiers had afoot on his pole.They asked him"why didn't you bring his head?"He answered,"they took his head away before i got there which might have indicated that he carried his own having been done to, the same things they do to their enemy.

The prisoners who were released instead of fearing their enemies dared them.one of the prisoners after his release composed a song which contained a challenge.He said in one of his verse that substances of his grandfather and his own father had nourished their enemies body and his muscles could not relax before this score was settled.To the last gasp he never stopped braving and defying his enemy by word and look up until one day his all neighbors mobilized themselves in numbers as   and attacked the cannibals so that they were driven away and scattered all over as their neighbors wanted to put them into extinction.To date these people exist scattered in Africa states but does not savuor on  fellow men meat.

Back to what prompted me to give this historical background is the barbarous horror of such acts committed by terror groups like Al-shabab,Isis and other extremist terror led gangs.My promise to them is that they will eventually be defeated.Never as I can attest,has there been so great an understanding in the world as the need for peaceful co-existence hence the birth of the United Nation(UN),terrorist and their activities have no place and whoever is in it is harnessed like a yoked oxen to a heavy task.They are forced to act when they know that they are acting.They will soon come  in-touch with the reality.When we catch up with them they will feel the play of our muscles and joints,as yoked as they seem to be,those that were forced to join the terror groups or did voluntarily will one day feel the weight of our plough and resistance of the soil.

There are types of cowardice that we despise like jumping from fifth floor when a electricity transformer blasts at a campus just because one had been attacked recently.But some have no treacherous base for example the screening of people in every public place.The security express great esteem for fat men and aversion to the lean ones.All the world allows it.Let us not judge by appearance in this fight.The terror issue has reduced us to the out most straits and difficulties.I know we might be ashamed to own such distress.To our good friends lets join hands and effort to effectively combat and scatter away these damn bloodied terrorists.