Eldoret City

21/10/2026

Pole sana kwa familia, marafiki na majirani wa Cheplee.

Chepleting was an alumni of Turbo Girls, year 2018.

Chepleting alipata ajali.

21/10/2026

KAMBI TURKANA, ELDORET’S PERPETUAL ABATTOIR.

This is Kambi Turkana, a holding ground for beasts awaiting slaughter, a place where livestock arrive alive and leave as meat for the human appetite.

Some people informally call it Kichinjio.

Kambi Turkana is a place of slaughter-bound animals, where cattle, goats and other livestock are kept before being slaughtered to satisfy the appetite of Eldoret City residents.

Many of the people who look after these animals are members of the Turkana community. They spend their days around livestock, providing end of life care to the animals as they await their final journey from the holding ground to the slaughterhouse.

Kichinjio carries the unmistakable smells of livestock urine, dung and animal bodies, natural harufus associated with a place where many animals are kept together, often for extended periods. For noses unfamiliar with such smells, the experience can be overwhelming.

Temporary structures serve as homes for these unfortunate people who work and live around the helpless and innocent animals enjoying their last days on this planet. The appearance of their shelters makes you question the quality of their accommodation, sanitation and the general living conditions of those whose livelihoods revolve around the arena of quenching human thirst for blood and flesh, satisfied by a continuous supply of unresisting livestock.

Behind the meat consumed in homes, hotels, butcheries and restaurants across Eldoret lies a chain of human labour that many flesh eaters rarely think about. Before flesh reaches the kitchen, someone must buy the animals, transport them, keep them alive momentarily, feed them and eventually deliver them for slaughter.

Kambi Turkana is a crucial part of that often-overlooked chain.

Kichinjio is an essential link in Eldoret's flesh supply chain, the journey from livestock to meat beginning long before a butcher's knife is raised. Kambi Turkana offers a glimpse into that journey, and a reminder that the conditions behind the food on your tables matter just as much as the food itself.

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This is Gladys Boss Sholei, the most enduring Uasin Gishu County MP, and a loyal supporter of President William Ruto.

She first became Uasin Gishu County MP in the year 2017. She was re-elected in 2022 and is on her last stretch of her second term service.

Gladys Boss Shollei is currently married to South African psychiatrist Dr. Neil Richard Horn. Yet, in the political arena, she remains Gladys Boss Shollei, the name she acquired through her previous marriage to Sam Shollei, whom she divorced during the COVID season.

Her first marriage ended in divorce, but the surname Sholei survived the separation. Over the years, it has become attached to Gladys's public identity, political journey and recognition among Uasin Gishu voters.

Today, she has a different husband, but the name associated with her political life remains rooted in her former marriage.

Kumbe a person can move on from a marriage without moving away from the identity that marriage helped establish.

Whether she would gain or lose politically by adopting her current husband's surname is a separate question.

What is clear is that the name Shollei has an established place in Gladys's public life, independent of the marriage through which she acquired it.

Will she be re-elected again next year? Time will answer.

21/10/2026

This is Kambi Turkana, a holding ground for beasts awaiting srouta, and a perpetual abattoir.

Some people informally call it : Kichinjio.

It is a place of Zayunazing animals for the benefit of satisfying the appetite of Eldoret City humans.

Most of the care takers of these animals are the Turkanas.

The place is full of natural smells from fresh livestock urine, dung and body scent. The houses are also temporary and poorly built, evidence of a community struggling to survive.

Have you ever been to Kambi Turkana?

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Long term.

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20/10/2026

Mbona watu huvaa suits na ties?

Is it that necessary? Who said it is? Why?

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