Kikuyu Elders Beg Trees to Accept Being Cut to Pave Way for Road Construction

Thaai

Sounds Idolatrous

What is the difference between this tree and the Voodoo concoction in Togo & Benin?

Cut the damn tree if you need to! The road can also be moved a little bit to either side avoid deforestation! Why are you talking to a tree that will never talk to you!! ??Why??

Na mnasema wajaluo ni warogi na wachawi. Unajua hakuna uchawi kali sana kushinda ya mugikuyu. Ju on top of yao, wananunua ya Watanzania, ya Wakamba, ya Wakisii, ya Wamijikenda, Ya Waganda, halafu kwanza wale wako hapa wananunua ya wa Haiti! So anachanganya hiyo yote na bado utampata akirukaruka kanisani. Hapo sasa! Sio wakikuyu wote, lakini wale mnafanya hivyo mnajijua tu! Epukana nao!

Asante sana Ndugu zangu AGIKUYU kwa kuheshimu na kufuata mila za mababu zenu. Ningependa kuwaona Wakenya wengine wakifuata mfano huu mzuri unaofanywa na wazee wa taifa hili dogo la "Ciana cia Gikuyu na Mumbi."

Katika nchi ya Kenya, Agikuyu ndio waliokuwa watu wa kwanza kukataa majina na dini iliyoletwa na Waingereza. Nimesema mara nyingi ya kwamba, mtu akikudharau:

1. Anakupa majina yake
2. Lugha yake
3. Mila zake.
4. Imani yake
5. Historia yake
6. Mwishowe anakuuzia nguo zake alizovaa na hazipendi
tena. Kwa Kiswahili zinaitwa "Mitumba."

No need to uproot the trees. The road can circumvent them. The trees are sacred.

They are dressed like white men. Very unfashionable white men though. They need to be taught how people used to dress before the white man introduced trousers and shirts. They look like pretenders.

Kenya will turn into a desert with all that deforestation. Very tragic!

Thank you elders for respecting our forefathers. Time has come to respect nature and go back to our roots and our God given values. Whatever has to be done to protect and respect black man's cultures should be done. Value is in our cultures and our people not in foreign cultures. Continue to ignore those who are embedded in foreign cultures that are not beneficial to our people.

How are you going to cut trees a century old for a damn road. Let it be known our Mwene Nyaga will not be happy and a curse should rightly befall on those behind this cruel act. Thaai thathaiya Ngai thaai.

Imara, hujambo? Good to see upo! @Guest13, the middle guy looks suspiciously like Odinga! Mwacha mila ni mtumwa na sisi kweli ni watumwa, tabia, mavazi hata lugha!

Why cut the trees in the first place. They can snake around them and retain some nice history....stop demolishing history!!!

This is a good beginning respect for the environment and our fore fathers.I hope the Agikuyu elders are not impostors because Mwenenyaga will not hear them.But I like the move, call it demonic or whatever but it is ours not foreign.

I think they aren’t cutting the tree??They said they’ve trimming the branches?Thaai.I love pples cultures n am a supporter of their gods too not the foreign one which many Africans worship who was brought from Europe.

Dada @Sukari:

Asante sana kwa kunikumbuka. Dunia ipo na mimi ningalimo. Naomba sisi sote Wakenya tufanye kazi pamoja na kuhakikisha ya kwamba watu tuliowachagua wanatuhudumia; siyo sisi kuwahudumia. Ni muhimu tuwakumbushe kila siku ili wasije wakasahau ya kwamba sisi ndio tunaowalipa mshahara na maisha ya juu wanayoishi.