Writing for Kenya by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Brill Academic Publishers 2009
ISBN: 9789004174047
Amazon: 9004174044
Goodreads: 6415187
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

what should we do, our people?

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If we look at how the law is conceived, we will see that it starts with

one’s parents when one is young. Parents advise a child when he starts

understanding things. Th

ey tell him that doing this is good and doing

that is bad. Anyone’s fi rst law is from parents.

Parents also warn him like this: ‘If I ever see you doing what I have

warned you against, I will beat you thoroughly.’ Th

e child grows up

knowing that if I do such and such, I will be beaten. Th

at fear causes

the child to fear doing the bad things he has been warned against and

gets into the habit of hating bad behaviour.

He does what his parents want and they in turn are impressed by

the child. Blessings and peace come to their home.

However, when he grows up, he no longer fears his parents as he

sees that he is stronger than they. You sometimes hear that somebody

beat up his mother or father. He can cause a lot of harm if there is

nothing to prevent him doing whatever he wants.

Moreover, what one person wants to do is also what other people

want to do. If he wants to kill someone, he does so, as he has no one

to castigate him. May God help us not to be like that.

Now you may see clearly the purpose of law and how it helps people.

It protects people from being harmed by bad ones, and keeps the coun-

try at peace. Th

e strong do not take the property of the poor.

In the past, the many prohibitions and taboos that people were taught

made them behave properly.

Today, however, people may become good and righteous if they can

truly believe in the teaching of Jesus Christ. Th

ere is no way to make

everybody good. Th

ere will therefore be thieves and other very evil

people, since we cannot see through their hearts.

One may say with his mouth how good he is, and his actions may

show that he is good, but he may in fact cause all kinds of unmention-

able harm. Because of that, the law is put in place and its importance

emphasized. It is written down that if one commits a crime, there is a

specifi c punishment. Th

ere is no exception, but it applies to whoever

commits the crime, even to the judge himself.

We therefore see that, if the punishment for murder is death, there is

no good reason why that murderer should not be killed, once an inves-

tigation shows he is guilty. Money or wealth cannot prevent you from

being executed, contrary to what some people think these days.116

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chapter four

Tũgakĩona atĩ angĩkorũo watho wakũraga mũndũ ũrĩa ũngĩ mũragani

nake nĩ kũragworĩ, hatirĩ kĩgiria gĩa kũgiria mũragani ũcio age kũragwo

kũngĩtuĩrio na kũoneke o wega atĩ nĩwe ũraganĩte. Mbia kana ũtonga o

wothe ndũngĩgiria oragũo ta ũrĩa andũ aingĩ meciragia matukũ-inĩ maya.

Tũgakĩona atĩ ona kũringana na mawĩra maitũ marĩa tũrĩkoragwo

tũkĩenda kũmaruta nĩ kwagĩriire tũgĩe na mawatho makũgitĩra wĩra

ũcio ndũkae kũgũithio nĩ andũ arĩa oru, marĩkoragwo gatagatĩinĩ gaitũ,

na arĩa tũtangĩmamenya kana tuone ngoro ciao.

Na tondũ wa kũhutia watho mũna nĩ tũrĩmamenyaga.

Watho nĩ gũtara maũndũ marĩa mangĩkwo wĩra mũna ũthũke.

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