FROM THE STAR Elders threaten to curse wayward Maasai women WE HAVE SPOKEN: Members of the Matapato Maasai Council of Elders in Ng?atatek on Thursday.Photo/Kurgat Marindany THE Matapato chapter of Maasai Council of Elders has threatened to curse nine women listed and identified for inciting an attack on Governor David Nkedianye last month. At their meeting on Thursday evening in Ng’atataek location near the Kenya-Tanzania border, the council of elders gave the women seven days to repent and seek forgiveness or risk a curse. The elders led by chief Daniel Kupai, Partimaro group ranch chairman Lemumu Ntekese, Pastor Cosmas Muanki and several Matapato clansmen named the women who allegedly attacked Nkedianye and Kajiado county commissioner Harsama Kello on June 17. The elders’ charge sheet read out by Kupai claimed the attack on the top leadership of the county has placed their location at a high security risk. “After a thorough consultative meeting with my security team that includes assistant chiefs, village elders and the Nyumba Kumi policy committee, the women named hereunder were identified as inciters and the most indiscipline people in this area, he said. The chief, in front of more than 300 men and women, said Chicha Tantaine, Anne Nkoone Nepei, Nenkayia Kitapai, Nemoshon Kadiko, Mary Mosusu, Yionta Nkosira, Noorkimunyak Shirim, Jemimah Nayiaha and Moriaso Parkinyo Paruat were the inciters. The elders said if the nine are allowed to mix with other women they will “poison” them. They said most of them are unmarried women with questionable pasts and recommended that the police monitor them closely. Kipai said those named will be returned to their rural homes after the seven days. He said it is a taboo in the Maasai culture for a woman to disrespect a man in the society. Ntekese said:“This trend is getting worse every day. The other day some Maasai women beat up their men in Sajiloni after smoking them out of beer dens. When did the rules change and since when did we allow our women to discipline us? He blamed the indiscipline of the women on the failure of men to act on them. “If you allow your women to go out and drink beer and associate with divorcees, what do you expect?” Ntekese said the women who blocked the governor and his entourage, forcing him to walk and address them on the tarmac had earlier stormed Ng’atataek trading centre and forced traders to contribute money for the burial of a student who died in a local school. “They collected Sh50,000 and only took Sh20,000 to the parents of the dead boy. We demand to know why they went collecting the money without alerting the authorities. This is theft,” he said. The charge sheet that was read out in public was copied to Nkedianye, Kajiado Central MP Joseph Nkaissery, the county commissioner, the OCS Namanga and the county CID director. Kupai said Tantaine allegedly incited her colleagues and youths on August 3 last year to fight women from other tribes claiming that they had robbed them of their husbands. Two days later she issued death threats to Edna Cherop, Elizabeth Njeri and Carolyne Wangeci if they failed to move out of Ng’atataek, he said.
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