Kenyans are a threat to government fences.

It is time Parliament enacted a new law to keep Kenyans as far away from government fences as possible. In the olden days, before mobiles and mobile phone cameras, government fences were emblazoned with stern warnings about photographing government fences. Today, the prices of cameras have fallen; even the hoi polloi can surreptitiously take a snap of a government fence without fear of being caught in the act. Now that the people have discovered or will discover all the secrets government fences hold, Inspector-General Kimaiyo and Director-General Gichangi need all the statutory and legislative help they can get to keep Kenyans as far away from government fences as they can.

 

In recent months, Inspector-General Kimaiyo has found temporary extra-legal means to keep Kenyans from touching or in any way interfering with government fences. Keen observers of the security measures that Inspector-General Kimaiyo has mounted across the Capital City will have seen the liberally judicious employment of metres and metres of white half-inch nylon rope to keep Kenyans from touching or in any way interfering with government fences surrounding Vigilance House, County Hall, Sheria House, Harambee House, Times Tower, the Treasury and the Central Bank.

 

Indeed, it is not just the fences of the national government that are being secured against the obviously dangerous hands of the people, even the Government of Nairobi City County has taken a bold extra-legal step to protect its fences from the people. A quick stroll along City Hall Way will confirm the dangerous times in which government fences find themselves. Sadly, Governor Kidero seems to be running out of cash for his protect-the-fence programme; his government's fences are barricaded behind flimsy black-and-yellow plastic ribbons. Perhaps if he has a quiet chat with Inspector-General Kimaiyo, the latter will donate some of what must be an unlimited supply of white half-inch plastic rope.

 

While the dangerously indolent and ungrateful refuse to appreciate the threat under which the government fence exists today, this blogger is determined to avoid such a blasé attitude. This blogger is keenly aware of the animosity Kenyans bear for the government fence, an animosity that seems to have multiplied tenfold in the past year or so. All the hundreds of millions of shillings that the government has spent to build its fences are being threatened by an ungrateful nation; the protection of the fences must receive top priority.

 

As further proof of the dangers of the people in relation to government fences, look at their determination not to buy cars; if they bought private cars, they would never ever come anywhere near the government fences. But with malice in their hearts, they are determined to keep walking just for the opportunity to do harm to what are national treasures, our glorious government fences. This blogger imagines that because of the determination of the people, by hook or by crook, to damage government fences, Inspector-General Kimaiyo, Director-General Gichangi and all those worthies charged with defending and protecting government fences, must wake up sweating bullets in the middle of the night worrying what Kenyans are up to.