to negotiate directly with them . They had indicated through the translator that the terms were non-negotiable and final .
Ochieng was appalled and flabbergasted , so when the uncle had said that their daughter was not for sale did he mean that she was for extortion ? Is it a Kenyan culture that we do not mean what we say and we say what we do not mean ? Is duplicity a Kenyan culture ?
On reflection Ochieng realized that Kenya was the only country among the many that he had visited to have a ‘ not for sale sign ’ on property . Ochieng has been perplexed by this seemingly contradictory behavior of putting up the ‘ not for sale ’ signs .
Why would a normal thinking person bother to advertise what he does not want to do ? Or is it a Kenyan way of drumming up interest since these wiry merchants understand that Kenyans only want to acquire that which is not readily available .
Are Kenyans such a strange breed that they assign value to the unattainable and the illegal ? Do we take the ‘ not for sale sign ’ as challenge rather than a warning . Every roadside sign-writer has the ‘ not
This is the same country that you can go down to River Road and print a land title and use the fake document to sell land which is not yours and somehow when the true owner discovers the fraudulent deal he spends the next twenty years proving that the land is indeed his .
for sale ’ signs ready as there is a huge demand in Kenya for them .
Is ‘ not for sale ’ Kenya-speak for “ for sale ’? Do Kenyans have a devious DNA that delights in deception ? Does the related sign that we also see “ trespassers will be prosecuted ” actually mean that trespassers will be feted ?
There may be logic in this absurdity if you bear in mind that no trespasser , better known in Kenya as land grabbers has ever been prosecuted for stealing public or private land . There is usually a media hooha which dies in time and the grabber ends up richer and untouchable .
In a country that has a very robust judiciary and a barrage of learned friends why is it that we do not have a success list of those that have been prosecuted and preferably fined and jailed for daring to grab public land and in many cases private land too .
It is common knowledge that there are Kenyans who report to Ardhi house religiously every morning and their job is to find unallocated public land to grab and ferret out unsuspecting Kenyans who reside on lease-hold land and are unaware that the leases have expired .
This is the same country that you can go down to River Road and print a land title and use the fake document to sell land
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