Tigania East’s retrograde cultural renegades

By Njoroge Kinuthia

It is strange what people can do in the name of defending cultures that have been clearly overtaken by time. Very strange news has been coming from Tigania East District of late.

A gang of young men has for instance been scouring Buuri sub-location, looking for younger men said to have undergone circumcision in hospital. That, to them, is a cardinal sin. Real men, according to these retrogrades, are those who are circumcised the traditional way.

Stabbed to death

The protectors of by-gone cultures have reportedly been threatening to re-circumcise boys while demanding liquor from their parents.

The gang is accused of stabbing a Form Three student who had undergone circumcision in hospital to death when he resisted its kidnap bid.

But it’s not only men who are obsessed with circumcision. Women too have been hunting for their uncircumcised peers, and circumcising them. Some suspects were arrested in Athanja sub-location. However, there is a widespread feeling that authorities are not doing enough to arrest more loose cannons.

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