05/03/2024
After a tiresome day,I got bored and decided to have a look on youtube for a few minutes,maybe for a few minutes of motivation to keep me pushing.We all do this at some point. The first video to appear was Kiptum's burial.4+hours! This people must have thought that I was too idle to watch a funeral service for whooping four hours! I scroll next.Kiptum's death. However,the second video was a short segment of Cs Ababu Namwamba. I scroll next. It was still about Kiptum's death. Was it a coincidence,I highly doubted. The third video was of of Cs Murkomen.I decided to watch.
I kept re-watching the Late Kelvin Kiptum's funeral service. A lot of things were said by a lot of people. But, there's something that the CS for Roads, Transport and Public Works, Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen said that got me thinking.
He said, "Kelvin was a national treasure who, through determination, dedication and diligence had attracted global recognition."See, the Cabinet is the most powerful organ of the Executive arm of Government. To sneak, as an item on the agenda during a Cabinet sitting, one must have done something so remarkably good - or bad - that it attracted the attention of the State House; metonymy for that all-powerful, administrative wing of the National Government.
Kelvin Kiptum, at 25, was an item of discussion in one such high-ranking meeting, chaired by the President himself. His name was discussed alongside such pressing issues as the El Nino, the Dollar and the Affordable Housing Project.
Then, I heard his friends talk about him. They said he was an ordinary buddy. The kind you crack stale jokes with.This man the President chaired a meeting to discuss, was once a child, trotting the dusty paths of Chepsamo, barefoot. With a big head and a running nose. He was a boy like any other. With the mischief of youth and the fear of age. Except, unlike most of his peers and unlike most of us,he had a stubborn sense of determination. A small seed of a dream he watered with his sweat. A f
