ALL Kenyans should heed these words and love their neighbours!

I was just sorting through some stuff in my office and I came across this song that my son had to learn for an assembly last term and i thought it was very appropriate right now so I thought I'd share it with you all and hope that all Kenyans will learn to love their neighbours again.

Friends and Neighbours

When you’ve got friends and neighbours
All the world is a happier place
Friends and neighbours put a smile on the
Gloomiest face
Just take your little troubles and share ‘em
With the folk next door.
Makes it twice as easy to bear ‘em
That’s what friends are for
‘Cos if you’ve got friends and neighbours
That is something money won’t buy
You can hold your head up high
Although you’ve not a penny
And your house may be tumbling down
With friends and neighbours
You’re the richest man in town.

I wish some of these rich folk would remove their heads from their arses.

I am so angry, i have tears pouring down my face, and i want to scream.

Instead i will vent my anger on this keyboard and write this down.

I am sitting in my office right now with only about 5 other people, and we are surrounded by riot police and for the past couple of hours there has been gunfire and explosions on and off.

I have about 200 staff out there - all young Kenyans (hardly anyone above the age of 30), who all live in the various slums dotted in and about Nairobi, and today, because of this unrest that we expected, i gave them all the day off.

Well can you believe i have had numerous phone calls in the last hour asking me why my staff are not working and where's their commitment.

For Christ's sake - they are scared and they are locked up in their homes praying that they will live to see tomorrow, and all our directors have to say is that they are showing a lack of commitment as other shops are open and their staff have got to work, and if our staff can't do that, they should lose their jobs.

Why is it that these people with money, have their heads in the sand just because they feel safe in their big fancy cars and their fenced and guarded houses, it is NOT the same for the common wainanchi, I wish that they would wake up and please try and understand that. I am always in trouble for defending my staff - but if i don't - who the hell else will is what i want to know.

Just because we have lost one day's revenue in our shops - surely that is a lot better option than losing any lives of our staff?!?!