When I was knocking of the day before, I took some Fairtrade documents to reconcile at home because some committee members proposed to conduct a meeting inside that office. After breakfast, I took bath and started working. At around 8am, Kasinthula Cane Growers’ General Manager, Bryan Namata called me to find out if I was possessing a certain document. “Let me check if I have it, if found I will let you know”. I replied.
A maize provision request
A man who assists me doing farm activities got me home when he knocked off. He complained of the run short of maize at his home. “I wanted to ask you that if you can assist me with only five kg of maize because children and are starving”. Said Kaphiri. I called my wife to measure and provide him. White maize is only the staple food without it there is no life. Many people cultivate maize in Shire Valley but the area experiences drought in many growing seasons. The irrigation dependent can only reduce this problem.
My cousin’s visit
At around 3:35pm, I left for Jakobo village to look for hoe handles (mipini). I bought six of them. My wife had forcing me to some hoes because we are towards rainy season. I was going back home at around 5pm. Jakobo village is about 8km from home. I cycled as fast as I could because I feared dark as the place is always famous of hyenas. When I got home, my cousin got me just before taking supper. He was leaving at 10pm. He was telling me the challenges he met when he was arrested and imprisoned for ten years. “My cousin when I was released in 1994, I did not recognize many people because it as if I was dead. Being kept at intensive like prison is almost the hell even though I don’t really know but I do appreciate”. He started telling me what he saw when he was imprisoned just because we were listening to the radio news from which we learn that a man was arrested for defiling four girls.
Those four girls fetched firewood at a certain prohibited forest. When the man me them, he forced them to pay Mk20 each, but they had no any coin to give that man. Instead he forced them to follow him at his house where he arrested them. He then forced one by one doing sex. He did that immorality with all four of them. He then released them. When they got home, they explained that misfortune to their parents respectively. Their parents reported the matter to police which arrested him. The man is in custody to appear in court to answer charges. Rape cases have been increasing even though the Malawi government is giving tough sentences to the victims to reduce these cases.
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