Turkana residents have a dispute worth our attention

Kenya: Ever since residents of Turkana County held demonstrations over alleged discrimination in hiring of workers at the Tullow Oil wells, many Kenyans have come out to criticise them and give them all sorts of bad names.

However, before we throw stones at them for being ‘uncivilised’, we need to put ourselves in their shoes for a moment. Here, we are talking of a community that has been marginalised since independence and when they thought, at last, God has remembered them, the ugly head of ‘bad leadership’ creeps in to spoil their party. These residents are genuinely bitter.