 Welcome back guys this is Unfinished I am your host SK Gitanga and today we're talking about peaceful picketing and on to our next question do you think picketing day should be set aside as a holiday let me know what you think in the comment section hashtag unfinished no because everything doesn't have to stop because of picketing I mean just because we're probably having those you know financial stress we cannot have the whole country brought to a still because of that I feel everything can still take place at the same time so we can have picketing on one end we can have people going about their business such interviews going on just because we're having picketing probably in Dagoreti doesn't mean usually do your interview over here to Kenti yeah but not for everyone My heart and my mind are different because Raya is a holiday in Freya but still in my mind a lot of things are going down when it comes to the holiday. Businesses are not doing well in sales. My heart and my mind are different because Raya is a holiday in Freya but still in my mind a lot of things are going down when it comes to the holiday. For an employer who is supposed to pay you, you have to make the right sales so how will we have that? He will really think of first paying, let us talk about the damages. So I'm thinking not really a holiday. Not really. I believe that when the government has already known that peaceful picketing is something that is within the constitution and they don't criminalize it. No one will be really scared of going to work because there is peaceful picketing. Right now people are always fear of opening their shops and going about their normal activity because we have police officers using excessive force on the citizens. You have them throwing tear gas left and right, etc. You have them using live bullets. So of course even me I won't be able to freely go to work because I can be a victim of maybe a stray bullet. It should not go to that extent because almost every time people are coming up with different picketing modules like on different areas because whenever people feel pressed even in different companies, different organizations, they feel like doing that picketing. So I don't think it should lead a country or even the workers in a company or whatsoever area where your best to go for a holiday. I think it should. I was to say no but yeah it should because if it's not peaceful, if the people are not willing to be peaceful then that means that people are dying just because not everyone is going to do it in a peaceful way or think about it in a peaceful way. So if I have a child and they're coming from school and they like meet with these people that are maybe violent or whatever, they might die, they might get hurt so it should be a holiday but it just doesn't seem right. Somehow a holiday, somehow not a holiday. A holiday why? Because we are not secure. We are insecure actually of our own properties. We don't know the persons when you want to go there. Yes we are one in picketing but we don't know the person when you want to go there. That scenario will take place. That's on a holiday. So not a holiday why? The change starts with us. It really does because of a very nice constitution. Some countries, our neighbours can't protest. When they protest they're killed, they're murdered, they're shot in the head. Try that in Kenya. A revolution will happen. Right? So I think change will happen in Kenya but it will start with us ourselves. The 50 something million Kenyans, us ourselves, not at you or our leaders. Our leaders are products of us. So it should start with us. And it should not be a holiday. That will bring us, that will kill commerce and our economy. So it should not be a holiday. The essence of it is we are stopping everything. We are trying to communicate. So if others are working, I think we should be idolising and everybody should participate in it. And it should be a holiday. No, no, holidays should remain. Holidays picketing should remain picketing. The Kenyan is obliged to fail, come on, and make squished sun. You're afraid to go to the streets and demonstrate whichever day? Not really. Because a holiday is a time where you kind of have a free day where people just come into Nairobi, go to recreational places, go have fun with the kids, go have fun with maybe your family. Maybe go out solo and just chill, enjoy. You're not working. You're just going out to kind of chill because everything is just cool. It's sort of a day where you're given, you're not going to work. So go out there, have fun, rejuvenate your body, get more energy so you can go back to work. But then now picketing gives you a situation where you're not really just stuck in the house because you just fear going outside and maybe get robbed. Or maybe even find the police at the corner and you don't know what might happen. We've seen people getting hard stories where somebody just got out to go and buy something at the shop, then they meet the police and boom, they're gone or something or they're attacked. So picketing kind of puts people in a place of insecurity. You're not really going out to kind of enjoy yourself to ease your mind. You're actually even more stressed because maybe that day you've not even gone out to make money or something like that. So if you've not kind of made money for that day, you've not opened for shop, you've not opened your business for the day. That puts you even as much as in the house resting, you're not going out to work. Your mind is not going to be at peace. Yes, it should be a holiday because I feel like everyone has the right to voice out their opinions and maybe bosses should actually give out a free day to their workers. We unite as a country. On to our next question. Personally, how do you handle picketing? Let me know in the comments section. For me, my days are just at home. I have something that I usually go on Wednesdays here in town and I've found it so difficult for the last three weeks going there because I had gotten so attached to it. But just the fear of me coming here and something bad happening to me is something that I really think about. So I just keep away from them and I just stay home and pray for them. I'm like, wow. When I can, when the situation allows, whereby the protests are not happening, where my duties or my activities and businesses of the day are not happening, like say riots are not happening where I am heading to, it will work out. If riots will be happening where I'm heading to, I'll just have a meeting say over the phone. I don't go. I don't go because I don't feel comfortable with me. And I don't, I'm not against those people who go for mandamano. For them, they're acting as a voice to those who can go there because they're those who have got disabilities and they're those who have got medical issues. They're those with even personal, even people with different personalities. When they want to feel more professional, they can't find themselves there. You know, they have got their own reasons, how else you end up here. But me personally, I don't go there. My day, sit as a man is sour, sit as a man is poor because there are damages people want on me. I spend my day just trying to build myself. I try to build what I own, what I do, so that if there is a better tomorrow. I always stay at home because I don't want to be a victim of police brutality. Basically, not because of protesters, but because of police, majorly. And another case is also whereby we have protesters also taking advantage. Criminals also taking advantage of the peaceful protests. So they use that opportunity to rob other people's properties. You know that is created by, because the government has already criminalised it and they will be chasing them up left, right centre. So they will take advantage of that. Maybe destroy other people's properties and maybe rob other people. So I would, at any time when there is a picketing, I would stay at home. My name is Chan. I am so weak, they just beat me so I just stay at home. I stay at home and maybe follow the news, yeah, I just stay at home for my safety. I haven't been actively involved in the terms of like, you know, running down with the carousel and everything, but I support them. Like, I do let them know that, yeah, you guys are not on your own. It's not like you're wasting your time. You have the energy to go on the streets, go. We are supporting you like we, yeah, we're backing you. So that's all I've been doing, like if it's maybe on social media, I'll be retreating every post to do with the picketing, you know, just to show them that you have the emotional back up. Well, home all day all night. Yeah, like I literally cannot, well, I live in Kibra, but then, you know, the place where I live, you know, it's kind of peaceful on the days where there's picketing, you just can't, you really don't know, you really don't know the situation outside. So all you have to do is just stay inside, go on social media, maybe on Twitter, you know, just go to the hashtag manomano, and you know, just see what's happening. That is all I do, basically. Yeah, that is just all I do. I just stay at home and kind of monitor the situation in the CBD, the situation in Kibra, maybe in Matare, you know, just see what's happening. Yeah, just get informed, but then I cannot really go out because, you know, I might find the demonstrators right outside and that, you know, that will be trouble for me. So personally, my day is, if there's picketing going on, I'm home all day. So there's no need to go risk my life in picketing or something that it can't even add value for myself, but going out there, I raise my voice, I talk up, I come out, I say, so I better stay at home, just read, play games for my own. I'm an English, you know, librarian, you saw me. I don't see any value doing the demonstration. Well, myself, I got no days off. I have a job, I have a job, I have a job. I have a job on Friday, Thursday. I have a job on Thursday. So it depends on your hustle, it depends on your goal. It depends on how much you spend on your money. And if you want to get a job, you have to pay. If you want to get a job, you have to pay. So let's keep pushing, man. I'm at home. I'm at home, seeing what is happening around, and also at the same time, I'm a Christian, so I'm also praying for our nation and for peace and for guidance for our leaders so that wherever they are, whether it's the opposition and whether others in the city, that God will just instruct them on how to guide and lead the Kenya. So I'm going to stay at home, watch news, and go home. Personally, I don't want to go home because I love myself. I try to stay safe. And also, I would advise you guys to stay in your houses and buy food that is going to last you for a few days. Try to be peaceful during this season. We have come to the end of the show. Thank you for watching. See you next time.