THE HILARIOUS TALE OF HOW THE BISHOP'S DRIVER "BLESSED" CATTLE RUSTLERS

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By Thomas Chemelil


Photo/angelUS: Priest offering blessings in Northern Kenya. 


This world is full of tales to tell. If it is not about Loti Pen and his lost wallet, the  Kakuru Clan or Edward Igesa and his allegiance to Elizabeth Akata, it will be about the legendary hill of Kipteber and the crow that warned people about a falling rock.

Today, I will tell you the story of the Bishop's driver who was forced to "bless" cattle rustlers along the Soko Bora-Chesegon stretch.

One day, in the not so distant past, the story is told, the late Bishop Cornelius Korir was from a peace mission in Kerio Valley. As fate would have it, the late Bishop decided to head back to Eldoret on a chopper that the Deputy President had used then. He instructed his dutiful driver to take the vehicle back to Eldoret.

That journey by road would remain etched in the memory of the said driver to date. Somewhere along Kapkobil, the driver came face-to-face with a team of armed cattle rustlers who stopped him. The driver could hear the tom-tom beats of his racing heart as he came across  the weather-beaten, hard faces of the mean rustlers.

"Bishop, we are happy to meet you today," one rustler who recognized the Bishop's vehicle interjected. "You must bless us today for we are going on a mission," he added.

Faced with the choice between life and death, the driver thought fast. He noticed that the Bishop had left his robes in the car. He quickly put on the robes and took the role of Bishop.

At the back of his mind, he could hear the tune," Uninnyunyuzie maji... Bwana... Unioshe nitakaze... Kweli... Niwe   mweupe kabisa..". The "Bishop" took some leaves and some water and began "blessing" the menacing team of rustlers.

The rustlers were so happy having been "blessed" and instructed the "Bishop" to go in peace. 

Brothers, the moral here is that extraordinary  times require extraordinary measures.Sleep well my people. This world will always yield tales. The mountain blogger is always here to tell you these tales.

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