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The long weekend has made children resort to playing outdoors thanks to Dr. Matiang'i intervening the school curriculum. In Mikindani where my neighborhood is, children were busy enjoying themselves playing games when a tall Kisii man suddenly felt like joining them.
The tall Kisii man who is a matatu driver and owns his own matatu was busy repairing his matatu when he suddenly had the urge of playing with the kids. He tried to jump with the children up, the skipping rope but the children could not adjust it to his height. So the Kisii man resorted to taking the rope to his matatu where he repairs it nearly always
One brave little girl called Marion was not amused, so she went after the rope and begun pulling it from the man and finally the little girl started crying and told the other children she had been beaten.
In no time a big well fed Luhya lady came out of a saloon where she operates and confronted the man like a warrior ready for battle but the man resorted to hiding in his house, drama ensued as members of the public stood around listening to the Luhya lady hurling insults to the man for allegedly beating a child who is not his.
The child's mother a single mother of three later came and she was really angered by what the Kisii man allegedly did. She was heard saying, "Huyu mtoto nilizaa na mwanaume kama wewe, leo wajifanya ndio mume sana."
The Kisii man locked himself in the house in great fear saying nothing until the two Luhya women had left. When he came out he was not his normal self but quietly repaired his matatu while avoiding the children and the angry mums.
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