By George Orido and Ernest Ndunda
The unholy alliance between criminals and police opened the stage at the ongoing Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival when Kwale Girls High School presented a thrilling dance, Mulika Muizi.
The dance was led by the duo of powerful soloists Sarah Ngaboh and Elizabeth Sabina. It depicted a community that had experienced rampant cases of insecurity.
When villagers sought help from security enforcers, those arrested were released under unexplained circumstances.
Action is then taken against the officers and security is restored.
Mulika muizi, presented in calculated Sengenya beats, was a colourful and entertaining piece spiced with modern pop songs that added meaning to the storyline choreographed by Penny Chidongo and produced by Gatana Bahati.
Agoro Sare High School took the breach of law to the next level with their verse In the lab.
Presented by Castro Oriento, the verse depicts a teacher who gives his student leakage to a national exam. However, things turned sour when the actual exam is different from the leaked one.
The message in this verse produced by Maurice Ogutu and directed by Moses Odipo is that only hard work pays.
The theme of misusing children was also explored in Musa Gitau Primary School’s dance Na Nyumbika.
In a day yearning for good leadership, Bukirimo R C Primary School from Western staged a dance titled Class Six.
The dance depicts children quarrelling over class leadership and there is demand for an election of a new class prefect.
Class Six draws its beauty from its subtle and serenading voices blended with the litungu and Ishiriri instrumentation.
There are no doubts the pupils including Lucy Barasa, Millah Mulunda, Fred Wamalwa together with the producer Wilfred Musuya and director Mukhebi Martin Sangura put in quality time in the production.
Levin Paul Omondi of Lions High School Kisumu put the icing on the cake for the day when he articulated drug problems among youngsters and placed the blame squarely at the feet of traffickers and barons.
In his French solo verse Qu Cosse Mes Deuys? (Who is breaking my eggs?), he seeks a second thought from drug dealers who are busy destroying the future of the young generation.
Meanwhile, police in Changamwe are pursuing a gang that attacked pupils from St Mary’s Mukumu Girls Primary School at Bangaladesh.
Unknown people attacked the pupils on Monday after they arrived in Mombasa for the National drama festivals.
A teacher was said to have lost his crutches in the process.
Confirming the incident yesterday, Changamwe Deputy OCPD Catherine Irungu said police were in pursuit of the thugs who attacked the driver and the pupils.
Additional reporting by Linah Benyawa
