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The provocative political satire show xyz season 7 is back, and this time it is promising to be bigger and better, unlike the last few seasons which were first aired at citizen TV later kiss TV, it will be aired at NTV, the show was first aired at citizen TV received diverse reactions from viewers and politicians themselves who were being satirized, it brought money to citizen TV as many people didn’t want to miss a single episode.

At kiss TV the show also brought them many viewers and they even brought it daily including the repeat of the previous episodes, but when it season six ended, many kiss TV viewers turned away for lack of content by the radio Africa owned TV station.

Now that NTV will be premiering the show starting this Sunday the 20^th, they expect to attract many viewers since it lost many of them after the exodus of their top journalist to their rival Mombasa road based standard group.

Season seven which comes at this election period will be watched by many and see the impact or the influence that it will have

mkenya mvumilivu

After camping outside state offices for days without yielding results, Jack and his colleagues had to eat a humble pie and accept the painful fact that they had been retrenched and no office can revert that cruel and barbaric act by their former employer.  

After the long tiring and stress-filled journey to the village, jack enters a local supermarket to buy bread and ng’ombe (usiseme maziwa) and after giving a one hundred note to the teller, the balance was few coins which since they were not available, because other customers hawakuchomoa coins he was given some sweets.

After arriving at his home, Jane, who don’t know Jane, the village cnn, the lady who was Andrew’s mpango wa kando , Andrew the man who stabbed his wife to death then hanged himself, that is according to orphaned John, their nine year old kid who is still traumatized by events of that fateful night. Back to Jane, Jane narrates to jack the where bout of his wife Naomi.

Apparently Naomi accompanied a caravan of villagers who had to travel to a region far away from the village to bring back Martha, you see Martha had tried to narrow the ethnicity bridge and made the decision to get married to James, though her elders had rejected her branding her as a rebel and a traitor, their worries were confirmed when she sent a message home complaining of a cold welcome and mistreatment by James’ people.

Unfortunately they were involved in a road accident that killed 13 people on the spot among them Naomi her wife.

How will he break the news to their 13 year old class seven kid who opened school last week? How would their son take the news? Will it interrupt his education?

For once jack feared that it was a curse or he and his family had been bewitched. Just before he could answer the questions, their son appeared. Isn’t he in a boarding school? What was he doing home less than a week after they opened? Which school sends pupils home at these late hours of the day? Had he learnt about the accident? About her mother’s death?

The truth of the matter is the son had not learnt about the news, in fact, he had been sent home in the morning and was held up in a certain political where mheshimiwa was mobilizing watu wetu against watu wao.

Apparently, the son had been sent home since he hadn’t cleared the tuition fee which according to the minister of education was abolished and according to the headmaster, tuition was voluntary in his speech but compulsory in the newsletter sent to parents during closing day. Though the pupils lost three weeks at the beginning of the shortest school term when the teachers had abandoned their tools and went to the street chanting “no chalk without cheque,” and there will be election interruptions in their school calendar, what can the school do? It has bills to pay and staff to pay and the government sends money towards the end of the term.

    

pipeline

Recently, pipeline estate found itself on the headlines for all the wrong reasons; a juakali artisan stabbed his wife to death and later killed himself after he had earlier escaped unhurt after jumping from seventh floor in a suicide attempt. What was left is an innocent orphaned nine year old kid. How many nights have resident woken up in the wee hours of the night to answer to children cry after dad slapped mum unconscious?

A year ago, not far from the estate there was the Sinai catastrophe that left hundreds dead and more homeless; the survivors are yet to come to terms with the loss of their relatives, children and properties.

All this begs the question, what is with this estate pipeline?

The fact that pipeline is among the rapidly growing estates in Kenya is not in doubt. The problems that accompany this rising process are also indispensable. The poorly constructed storey buildings by few money-minded businessmen are crowded.  This houses which are people’s residents and business premises. They host Cyber cafes, kiosks, electrical shops, exhibitions, saloons, barber shops, movies and music shops.

In one of the plots, at second floor there is a busy day care flooded with small kids who collide with mansions as they continue with the construction. In these floors, tenants hang wet clothes covering them with polythene bags. It is in these damp environment that children are brought up in. when it rains, it becomes a total mess, moving from point A to point B, you have to line up to step on one protruding rock/stone so as not to step on the dirty water. Just like many other estates poor sewerage is an adaptation.

Drinking water is a problem, residents are supplied with salty borehole water and forced to buy city council water sold for ksh. 15- 20 per jar.

Transportation is another headache, during the peak hours; from pipeline estate to dornhorm a distance less than a kilometer you can be trapped in an unexplainable jam for more than an hour not forgetting that you will meet another traffic jam at dornhorm later jogoo road. The transportation sector however is very competitive, being among the few areas blessed with a still functioning railway, embassava, city hopa, city shuttle and KBS are doing very well, not leaving aside the Nissan matatus which will defiantly  overcharging you.

The flourishing economy is best epitomized by completion of taj mall which houses uchumi super market and few banks and insurance companies. The bank accounts of few business individuals who invaded pipeline estate at the right time can best explain the business prosperity of this area, few supermarkets and bank agents who have to close before 8.00pm due to increased crime. Increasing insecurity, alcoholism, and drug peddling are matters of concern that resident here keep raising incase they see a mheshimiwa’s caravan passing around. Conmen have sharpened their skills and being sold a non existing plot is not something new.

Estate prostitution is alive in this estate just like many other Nairobi estates. These sex workers also work sometimes as housewives. Next to many 24/7 open bars and clubs, you can see stairs leading to brothels, or do I call them lodgings as they are registered by the city council. Starting from 9.00 pm, these sex workers line up outside shops which during the day are beehive of activities between businesspersons and customers. Beyond 9.00 pm, sending a child to a late night chemist for a good course would be risking.

pipeline is an epitome of many other estates where alcoholism, family wrangles, conflict between neighbors,  poor housing, dampness, lack of clean drinking water, water rationing, crime, drugs peddling, estate prostitution among others are what have to come to be considered as necessary evils to the rising of these estates.

With the alarming rural-urban migration, inflation and worsening economy forcing companies to retrench their workers, the there is no end in sight for these evilsfacebook.com/kennethwaithera