Afromusing

Jan 2nd Update from Eldoret

- Where to begin?! Perhaps the basics
-Town itself was calm today.
- Fuel available today,
- uchumi and other supermarkets open. Credit also available in Uchumi though restricted to 400 shillings worth per person. MPESA/safaricom office was closed.
- Food availability is so-so, bananas being sold, some kiosks open.
- Airport operational, actually there was alot of air activity today, saw many small planes, military choppers heading to old eld airport. If you want to charter an aircraft it could cost over $7000. To leave today, you would pay Ksh 15000, next available flights probably saturday or beyond and can cost between ksh 6500 or Ksh 6800 (Jetlink and fly540) – One way to NBI. It is jam packed there.
- Convoy of cars and buses left from the police station…probably Nairobi bound. Heard that people were being airlifted, but cant confirm this for sure.
-Whatever you have to do, you do it during the day before 5pm.
- Word is if you are driving, cant get past Naivasha if you are from western (i.e not kikuyu) cant confirm this though.
- Friends (of different tribes btw) were stuck in a place called Ndalat for 2 days, not able to get through because of roadblocks at one point escaped death from machetes (gosh this is terrible). These are not conventional roadblocks, they are manned by desperate youth who ask for your id, and also for money. There is a guy who parted with ksh1500 between town and the airport.
-Friends telling a kikuyu friend pole (sorry) because his house was burned. The thing is the people doing the burning are not even known to the people in the area, they are coming in from other places. I feel sick about this whole mess, cant even get myself to type the tribes kikuyu, kalenjin etc when typing this post. people are people. Because we are supposed to be ONE KENYA, this is shocking and utterly…shit, i cant find the word.
I have to go…
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