worse than
Posted by Social Matters , Thursday, October 3, 2013 11:14 AM
NOW
THESE ARE WORSE THAN TERRORISTS
In May 2003, I lost a very dear aunt
that I loved a lot, but the grief was made worse by the ‘ambulance chasers lawyers’
who tormented her in her death bed. My aunt had been in an accident which had
left her with some sort of internal bleeding and some internal injuries, what
made me angry about these ambulance chasers is that the money they received
from the insurance companies never gets to the victims; they take advantage of
accident victims…people at their worst, when they are most vulnerable. I was
only a teenager and that incident opened my heart and eyes to the evil that
existed in this world, how in the world do you rob a dying woman and feel
nothing and go on to rob others. Then there were the very good neighbors who
robbed my aunt of household items as soon as they heard she was dead, they
broke into her house. The thoughts of these kinds of people has never left my
mind over the years, it has always been with me. It all seems to come back in
the light of the Westgate incident, the fact during the security operation some
security forces members were caught looting shops. Here were the ‘good’ guys
who had been sent to rescue and save the day, the super heroes who were going
to fight the villains, who ended up adding insult to the injury. That only
added to the grief that most Kenyans were experiencing, I am interested in
finding out what will happen to these people who looted, when they are
sentenced their fate must be known to the entire country, because they are
indeed a national embarrassment.
That also reminded me of the people that
rush to accident scenes not to help the injured but to steal from them,
opportunists who rush towards fire scenes so that they can loot. It’s hard to
imagine that someone entered Westgate not because he felt there were hostages
that needed saving but because they were high value goods that he could help
himself with.
Such people are worst than terrorists,
or maybe there are no different from the terrorists because they do not assist
the situation in any way, they only add to the pain, confusion. Now the shop
owners of Westgate suffered double tragedy, if it was not the fire that
consumed their goods, it was looting that saw their hard work disappear into
thin air, not forgetting the incomparable loss of their workmates and colleagues.
Maybe while wanting to figure out why a person would become so indoctrinated
with falsehood, the first step might to understanding these vile looters and
enemies of success as my younger brother calls them. In Westgate we saw the
good and the pure hearted whose aim was to save the lives of all the innocent
people who were stuck inside and that brought tears and humaneness in our
hearts, it reminded us that we are people indeed with feelings, but the tears
were also brought by the terrorists who massacred people for no good reason in
this world or even the next, and the looters who added insult to injury. The
image of the son of the former defense minister will forever remain in my mind,
he was to me the face of the rescue operation, the KDF soldiers who died in the
operation will never be forgotten, because they died for a worthy cause, but also
these looters and their inhumane behavior leaves a lot to be desired because
they are no different from the terrorists.
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