Located in Kimu location, Kyuso Ward, Mwingi North constituency, this solitary village named after the
third president of the Republic of Kenya, is a quite place with tranquility as the most dominant
condition. Nicknamed Greenland, it has exclusive accommodation for any soul that is striving for a quiet,
peaceful and reposeful place to settle. It is a home and a dear motherland to Mwende Mutua. She finds
it a great endowment to have been born in Greenland. She revisits its greatness every evening as the full
moon glows, illuminating the whole land with light of hope for a luminous future.
In her mind, she has a bright vision for a great transformation of not only Greenland, but also the rest of
Kyuso Ward and Mwingi North constituency. As she sits in their home compound in the evening,
Mwende looks at the enchanting landscape of the Greenland, upto the furthest view where Muthunzuu
takes over towards that small town with an odd name, Kimu. It is a beautiful land, but not everyone is
able to perceive its beauty. It can win a battle of supremacy with other villages, but non of its villagers
has the courage to take the Greenland upto that level.
Party oriented politics, that is the archenemy for the progress of the Greenland and Mwingi North
constituency at large. Elites with the ability and will to transform Kyuso Ward have been crushed, to the
extent of making the radiant acacia and baobab trees to lament in daylight at Greenland. Whoever
stands to fight for the welfare of the people through politics meets the archenemy of progress, that is
the wrath of the dominant party. Mwende glances at the little boys and girls who wake up very early in
the morning in their torn school uniforms and rush to the nearby public schools, carrying firewood,
canes and jericans of water. Some of them rush to the...