THE SOCIAL WORKER

Social Workers should be the very last people to ask why we have all these crimes.

We see children traumatized and grow up without families.

We watch as resources meant for the welfare of the general public are diverted towards a few individuals.

We understand the day to day hardship of a young man trying to look for work -even menial work.

In Nairobi alone, thousands of people that we meet in the street and probably even work with sleep in parks, corridors, bridges and other places because there is not affordable housing or they simply cannot afford it.

We know there is sexual exploitation of girls and women -who after a while have no problem getting into other crimes.

There are no jobs, people lack core human intelligences, the population in our inner cities is growing without any plans and we continue to encroach in up country’s and “citifying them”.

Our social media has erroded the patience in most of us and we have become so fake.

As a country we got ourselves in problems that we have to live by their consequences but the truth is many families cannot afford to wait for a year before the price of unga falls.

For so long we have become a country of deals, networks, washwash and now we are having a government that is challenging what we have been accustomed to.

Chances are there is no fear in the mind of many of the criminals- the concept of the future does not exist to someone who is in a survival mode.

Again, as social workers what we should be doing is not criticizing or asking questions like everyone else -of which they should, rather we should be working with and helping our country understand what is happening and provide ideas of what needs to be done