East FM Presenter & Westgate Survivor’s Son ‘Befitting’ Advice to the President
Kamal Kaur hit the headlines on 22nd September (a day after the Westgate Mall terrorist attack) when she described the full horror of the carnage in a succession of tweets; how the terrorists got to the rooftop of the mall and started spraying guns where children and women were. Kaur, East FM’s presenter as well as a columnist in ‘The Star’ is back to the headlines.
Earlier yesterday, Kaur posted on her blog what her 8 year old advised the Head of State to do concerning terrorists. Here’s an excerpt of that;
Hello. I’m Kamal Kaur and I’m a Westgate Survivor and for now that is all I’m going to talk about that incidence.
My 8 year old son’s advice to the President and the Minister for Security is stop worrying about what Somalia is doing. Stay at the border and guard our country from there instead of going to their country to fight them. If a stranger came into our home and started attacking us, we retaliate by attacking back and calling security right?
Simplistic views of an 8 year old but I agree with him. Biased or not, he made sense to me. Let’s look after our own home before we go out sorting other peoples’ manenos. Fifty years on and we are still being ridiculed by the world when our own lawmakers can be so corrupt and turn against us to loot us.
I am angry and I feel very violated. If you have ever been robbed or have had a gun pointed at you or even shot at you, I’m sure you will know what I mean. This is not the first time I’ve had a gun shoved into my face. I’m all for community policing and agree with the directive that these thugs should be shot on sight. They lost their right to humanitarian rights when they decided they could start taking lives to loot.
