{"id":13076,"date":"2013-07-16T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/2013\/07\/16\/food-at-funeral\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:30:00","slug":"food-at-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/food-at-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribes scramble for food at funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \tKenya : There was a fine mess at the burial of famed journalist Ogara Taifa in Nyakach Kadiang&rsquo;a when journalists tussled over food meant for mourners. Paying tribute to the saying that after every fellowship, there must &lsquo;swallow-ship&rsquo;, decorum took a back seat as the impatient hungry members of fourth estate turned the solemn occasion into an unrestrained tumult. With every scribe scrambling for a bite, the scene proved quite a spectacle for the other mourners who found it hilarious. They couldn&rsquo;t help laughing.<\/p>\n<p> \tAccording to onlookers, the whole crowd of mourners was left astounded as journalist behaved like hyenas. A shocked eyewitness told this writer that he could not believe journalists were that greedy.<\/p>\n<p> \t&ldquo;We thought journalists could behave better but they have shown us that they are just Kenyans&hellip;and the way they were bashing MPs for being greedy! Kweli nyani haoni kundule (a baboon doesn&rsquo;t see it&rsquo;s backside),&rdquo; he posed. Most notable in the wild and chaotic scramble were presenters from a local radio station that has a wide following in Luo Nyanza.<\/p>\n<p> \tIn fact, one of their famed female presenters took the biscuit when she justified her spirited fight by claiming that &lsquo;man must live and that we live to eat and not the other way round&rsquo; before introducing a large bolus of food in her pretty mouth.<\/p>\n<p> \tThe said presenter is said to have filled her plate like a lazy civil servant&rsquo;s in-tray and kept on munching noisily with relish as she boasted about how she had outdone the competition in the melee.<\/p>\n<p> \tIt remains to be seen whether the respected and celebrated glorious voice will still charm the audiences after she disgraced herself during the pandemonium.<\/p>\n<p> \tAn old lady who was present chuckled, &ldquo;To kara jo habari gi be ema lich ka ochopo saa ng&rsquo;wenyo (so it means these journalists are as shocking and as entertaining as this when it comes to matters food, too)?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> \tAnother mourner wondered why journalists who are thought to be stars in the society, would resort to such habits as if they do not have enough to survive on.<\/p>\n<p> \t&ldquo;It is clear from this experience,&rdquo; noted the woman, &ldquo;that these people are struggling like the erst of us yet we thought journalists have lots of money, and have manners.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> \tOther villagers could even be heard joking that they would wish to have journalists attend more funerals so that they can get entertained more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> \t<strong>\u0938\u094d\u091f\u0948\u0902\u0921\u0930\u094d\u0921 \u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 JECKONIA OTIENO \u0915\u0940 \u0930\u093f\u092a\u094b\u0930\u094d\u091f.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \tKenya : There was a fine mess at the burial of famed journalist Ogara Taifa in Nyakach Kadiang&rsquo;a when journalists tussled over food meant for mourners. Paying tribute to the saying that after every fellowship, there must &lsquo;swallow-ship&rsquo;, decorum took a back seat as the impatient hungry members of fourth estate turned the solemn occasion into an unrestrained tumult. With every scribe scrambling for a bite, the scene proved quite a spectacle for the other mourners who found it hilarious. They couldn&rsquo;t help laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-comment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}