The Nairobi Business Community should be allowed to protect their businesses from looting and stalling. [Photo: Nation.co.ke]
Call them Mungiki or what-not but the Nairobi Business Community should be allowed to protect their businesses.
In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the main character says that when a man comes and defecates outside your house, you are not to reason with them, no, you are to break their head.
The NASA supporters have been allowed to misbehave for far too long.
While it is their constitutional right to picket every Monday and Friday as they please, it is also the right of Nairobi business owners to say that enough is enough.
There is no way that you can close your business for two weekdays from the fear of looting and still be expected to pay rent and meet your household needs.
In law, every right has a responsibility. There is no way one’s right to do something should be a hindrance to the others.
You do not come and beat your drum next to my ear since you have the freedom of expression. You will destroy my ear-drums.
The Nairobi Business Community should, therefore, be allowed to protect their business the best way they know how.