Hellon & Arunga are not Part of our National Agenda.

The Arunga-Hellon story was one of the myriads of stories within and without the country that deserved not the limelight it got over the past week. I do not say so because Hellon is an alumnus of my school--a school that we, who went through, hold with most superior reverence. I assert so for obvious reasons grounded in philosophies of personal dignity and human freedom.

Like any other Kenyan of age 18 and over, Arunga deserves not to reveal to anyone who replenishes her spiritual cup. She has a right to pick and quit a job at a her discretion. She is entitled to her daily itineraries. Arunga has the prerogative to be Arunga not unless in her being Arunga she explicitly infringes upon other individuals fundamental rights and freedoms, in which case the state should act to ensure her restraint.


Same case applies to Hellon. He is an adult who, as it appears, licitly erected walls to constitute what his followers have for a number of years dubbed a church. How he enlists individuals or families into his church is no business of the commonwealth.Whomever (adulthood is implied) he allows by consent to stay in his residence is business of no man.

The story of Arunga and Hellon reveals how we embarrassingly perpetuate this disturbing behaviour of subscribing to superficialities of gossip news. Because Hellon is purported to be housing several women in his house we straight away assume fulfillment of carnal desires. Because Arunga receives emails from some individuals in US we hastily infer a cross-border matrimonial arrangement. This is an illustration of mental laziness, failure to engage our faculties in more productive thinking, to say the least. To me this is a perfect case where a man (without regard to number) places himself on a holier-than-thou platform and assumes a disparaging and presumptuous responsibility of pointing out at perceived abnormalities or mistakes in an another man's life. 

That said, I do not imply absolute innocence in this particular case. Just like many Kenyans, I lack enough information to pass an objective judgment--and that I doubt is my obligation. But if any illegal undertakings have been going on for all this time then I wonder what the state apparatus designated to deal with such have been up to.