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Doctors in Garbatulla sub county hospital in Isiolo county, on November 18, 2024. [File, Standard]

This week, I was invited to a breakfast meeting in town, the sort of engagement I avoid like the plague, because I don’t like the idea of venturing out in the hour that local lore has it that’s when Mara dumped his mother by the roadside.

For those who have forgotten, Mara was the trickster who decided to prop his dead mother’s body by the village thoroughfare at dawn so that whoever touched her would be blamed for killing her. That’s my roundabout way of saying I hit the road too early for comfort when such nefarious characters abound. Destination? A city establishment that has a countryside feel, for a hearty breakfast.