Sadness in the streets of Molo

hh. Today Ruth Schäfer, Stephan Holderegger and their Dutch friend Hennie travelled to Molo (100 k north-west of Nakuru), over incredible bad, bumpy dirt roads. Molo was mostly inhabited by Kalanjin and Luo, with a minority of Kikuyu, who lived all peacefully together. The place made headlines when 19-year old runner Bernhard Koech from the Kalenjin was killed outside of Molo about six weeks ago. A former water station head, who has lost his job and doesn’t know where his family now is, showed Stephan and Hennie the place where the athlete was killed. The revenge of Kalanjin must have been terrible. Hennie was shocked to see how people who lived for years in peace now burned a whole village of about 20,000 down to ashes. Burned churches, burned schools... Stephan: “It looked like after a bomb attack. Everything is black, we found burned school-uniforms, burned school-books. Molo has become a ghost city. When you look into the children’s eyes there is no reaction, they are full of sadness."