The Injurious Habits.

It gets underway from birth and mature up with it, throughout one’s live and finally becomes a bad name or image to the family.

Idiosyncrasy is created and perpetuated by family ways of live from onset. Nothing comes automatically. A young family member starts with exchange of words with adult, throwing gestures to the parent and gradually to older people in a community is the first indicator followed by the habit of venturing to older peoples’ conversation. In African culture it is offending the older members of the community and a taboo too.

Esikiria is the second last born of this undesirable, aboriginal and abnormal family. A pegged family from the family of four siblings. He always spends time with his mother – stays, walks, sleeps with mum. His father works far from home doing night duties and rarely comes as dictated by the nature of duty. Father works as a watchman at Mt. Hebron Hotel in Lorugum town in Turkana County situated to west of the county where domestic animals is the only source of daily income.

Due to some unpredicted and unexplainable circumstances, Esikiria’s mother had delayed to conceive for long time and that is why his parents considered him as the only child in the family. He is loved by both parents, he loved them too. Father often comes home in the morning at around 8.00 am and sits far away by the front of the compound watching his animals while coming out of their dens after coming from his job. As routine, his mother after milking goes to town to sell milk to Somali traders and comes back totally drunk in stupefaction manner. She goes straight away to sleep just to avoid any disturbance.   

Esikiria – by this time is grown up person now approaching the teenage yet, still misbehaving more badly than a toddler. His misbehaviors among many were:  talking ruddily to older people but his parents never take any action to stop him doing such things. After a period of about six months, his father noticed something unusual from his wife. His wife’s stomach is protruding something similar to a pregnancy but he doubted pushing the blame to the recent illness like the hydatid – a disease caused by infection with the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus obtained from dogs. Looyamwar became suspicious and surprised. Esikiria’s mother is surprised but believed her husband may have come and found her drunk and attacked while a sleep.

The nine month period ended with a last born of the family and this became a topic of discussion in the village.