What is ailing Laikipia: Death and destruction visits ranches in Laikipia

[@ksgrmdsdl2383]

Why is it that the conservancy owners cannot provide education and jobs for the herder communities yet the conservancy owners have the financial capability to do so? It is hard to thrive in the middle of a community that is impoverished.

[@shud_kipz4793]

you mean, the government

[@zippyjepps2750]

This mp should be Jailed, he failed to mediate any peace deal.

[@kevinkahugu6930]

How has the mzungus owned land for over a hundred years? Did the Samburus/maasais sell them the land or did they hive it off?

[@mwendapoleee]

Exactly ,here in germany i would love to see an african owning a chunk of land while natives are fighting to survive.

[@winniewaigwa5004]

They hived the land hence creation of war all the time.

[@anthonymaina2215]

Give it to the local herders and I promise you, there’ll be nothing but desert in a few weeks, all the animals will die along with the herders and their families..The solution is simple, BAN PASTORALISM….teach these people actual farming and the positive effects will be tremendous. Kids will go to school, diseases among livestock and humans will reduce and most important, there will be no more conflict. We are in the 21st century for crying out loud!!!

[@benmzuri]

@@anthonymaina2215 He has asked about the true original owners of the land. It is those Communities you have mentioned. Either give them bacj their land or the turn it into a national park or reserve like tsavo and Maasai Mara which is owned and run by national and county government and KWS. The solution is not to give it to the mzungus who grabbed it for their own profit. If it needs to be conservation land, let it be a national park or wildlife reserve. The mzungus can go conserve wildlife in Europe. Are there animals there??? Woops. They finished their own before they came to grab lands in Africa.

[@genuinehuman554]

These mzungus buy or lease land and take good care of the land and animals for years that’s why these grazers are invading them. Why keep too many animals you can’t feed?. They are managing the lands more than your leaders manage your country. Your thinking is unrealistic. Using politicians and grazers to disrupt peace. Those whites might be more patriotic than many of you because they are following laws and pay taxes. What taxes is pastoralists paying except destroying properties and stealing?

[@samakikubwa7842]

This girl is even siding with these so called ranchers.Her report is one sided

[@rasputin7323]

I agree 💯

[@calebmamitu4014]

Exactly that's her side

[@mpendakiswahili3053]

It's very sad, our very own people siding with the colonialists....

[@NigelAnudo]

What do you expect

[@dadach1338]

I believe there's a better way to manage this crisis than using force. Some negotiation would have saved the loss currently witnessed in laikipia

[@esthernzisa6284]

The government must support their citizens. Kama ni mwenye shamba or mwenye ng'ombe l know there is a way to settle. I also see the hands of leaders hear who are putting salt on this situations.

[@naisulalepariyo552]

I wish the journalist were fair in reporting land issues in Laikipia or done her homework right.The security officers have made herders their ATM machines, the amount of bail that i have had to pay these last few days is umimaginable. Get these facts 48 Ranches own 937000 hectares of land Constituting to 40% of Laikipia land while 7% are owned by pastorolist.Next time you report, report on that as well.

[@dadach1338]

Of course they are not talking about the elephant in the room. During slavery a black supperviser would beat his sick fellow black slave for not plowing fast enough until his white master intervenes. In the face of a white settler you don't hear them talk of annexed land, extrajudicial killings...but they will show old clips of poached elephants and giraffes.

[@mosesgikeri6750]

Ati land they have owned for over 100 years what a joke that land belonged to some communities before those white people came there

[@deewagz7751]

This is not about grazing land, what are they asking small scale farmers in ol' Moran, this is about pushing other communities out of laikipia

[@cphyico]

this is a Kenyan problem, its why also public service employees take very opportunity to fill their pockets. We need a public service campaign to teach moral values and mutual respect

[@heraldloshi1864]

J.M Kariuki warned before he was killed.Let us not substitute a Mr Smith with a Mr Onyango or Kamau.He was making this remarks in reference to fair land distribution, especially when he noted the African elites,were amassing land without considering the locals.He actually suggested a land ceiling of 200 acres max,that an individual can own.

[@jagenaught]

These muzungus have been stealing from Kenya for a while now. Things need to change.

[@abdifatah222]

Pastrolists have every right to graze on any public land,They have been doing that for centuries,Illegal ni Mzungu.

[@fredodhiambo7612]

I agree but apparently hii shamba ati ni ya mzungu

[@peacemakersplus37]

This MP is the main problem!! Mark my words!!! He is very responsible for all skirmishes...

[@mikeshashu]

Totally agree with you sir👊!

[@realitycheck9463]

@@mikeshashu Its all the leaders

[@peacemakersplus37]

How do you encourage the herders to overstock and invade private land

[@AfricanRoyal254]

I can't believe that these failed colonialists just used the term "Illegal grazing". How did they come to own 44,000 ancestral acres? Pastoralists have a right to graze their native lands as natives otherwise conflicts are inevitable. So one nomad was killed for grazing rights....Are we really a free country?

[@opundoz]

Shaka Zulu 440000...I had to repeat. .in Kenya 2017..bullshit

[@AfricanRoyal254]

Richie Cee @ 2:22 . By the way, they're not the only ones with over 40k acres.

[@rastafari4122]

Shaka Zulu they should go back to the west..if needed they be chased the Mugabe way

[@rilashkalaiya4605]

Shaka Zulu i cant believe what you writing in this day and age there is a constitution to follow if you don't need them follow the law . create budgetary provision and reclaim. you are far out bro/sis

[@AfricanRoyal254]

I am entitled to my own opinion, so are you. Social media is awesome because economic disparities are put on display for all to see. How did they come to own so much land? willing buyer willing seller? who was the willing seller? What is a Kenyan to do if the constitution is not followed fairly? Land is for the people not for a few. Land ought to be declared in the whole country. Our resources are being embezzled by the second.

[@kevinmomanyi7996]

This people should do farming and stop having to many animals

[@NigelAnudo]

What an idiotic sentiment

[@fredodhiambo7612]

That's their everything dude..your school of thought is hilarious🤣🤣

[@wambuimngoso9893]

Which farming their that place is for animals not farming

[@joshnjogu944]

I just wish these so called leaders would learn from the Wazungu's ... teach their people to create ranches... These wazungus use the same land employ the locals to create such beautiful and commercially viable ranches from the same land that the pastoral communities use for their grazing ... Why can't they create ranches and maintain sustainable herds ... They claim that the government has deserted them yet they sit in parliament and do nothing ... The problem is not the wazungus or whoever owns the land .... but the leaders who exploit the illiteracy of their people and strive to maintain their deplorable situation for their own personal gains...

[@tuforu4]

seems whites not wanted in kenya , now i wonder who will teach them,,

[@Bongasasa]

Teach self some manners Irish man do you think I will be allowed to own 44000 acres of land in Ireland?

[@alicemugambi1034]

Josh M Toro i agree with you.. our leaders should look for solutions and stop blaming the wazungus. in some way they contributing to the killings

[@tuforu4]

alice mugambi it will end like zimbawbe.

[@mpendakiswahili3053]

@@tuforu4 to hell with you..wazungu sio mungu

[@mosesngatiah6365]

I don't get how mzungu owns 44000 hectares.Did he rightfully purchase it.lets start there?

[@mawama6719]

Without rain this land you are fighting and killing for is useless.

[@macy98]

They're not fighting for nothing! It is the government with their filthy politics! The land is full gold values.

[@jameskiai2514]

Ranches ? They go make ranches in their countries

[@petersonolesadira6843]

LAIKIPIA ni mahali ya amani tangu ukoloni sikuizi sijui nn shida pliz jubilee government kila mtu apate aki yake juu ranchers ndio mob laikipia wafukaji wamewachia place kidogo sana

[@RampantPinata]

Hundreds of thousands of kilometres? Kwani how big is Kenya???

[@bonturimurals8914]

Waseme wanaogopa mara Moja 😅🤣🤣🤣

[@planitakenya254]

People are going against the Mzungus. Kuki Gallman is just saving the conservancy for the wild! I feel bad seeing all this wild animals dead!

[@benmzuri]

You don't need an old mzungus to do conservation for you. It is 2021. Decolonize your mind. Have some dignity. She does not need to own 300,000 acres of land. It can be a national park like tsavo or amboseli a national reserve like Maasai Mara. Those are not owned by mzungus and they do conservation very well supported by THE KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICES. If you come to USA you will not find Africans running national parks. You have a government. People like Kuki inherited colonial land grabs and quickly named them "conservancies" after independence in order to prevent them being reverted to community land they had grabbed. Know you history or you will be forever conned and used by foreigners and the elite.

[@planitakenya254]

@@benmzuri Dude, whether the Mzungu grabbed the land or not, as long as she is NOT using the land illegally, she is doing a conservation, what's the problem? The problem with us Africans is that we hold grudges with the Wazungu and if they try to fit in here, we call them colonists! She has the Kenyan citizenship and therefore she is a fully Kenyan. Her immediate family, husband and son, are buried in the conservancy so it means they came here with a purpose. Am so pretty sure that if those conservancies in Laikipia don't exist, there is no way there would be Reserves and National Parks instead. That land would be settled illegally and therefore wild animals desperately will try to fit in with people and they end up getting killed, driving them to extinction! About Africans owning parks and reserves in America or whatsoever, well most Africans DO NOT CARE, about the animal's welfare and i thank the Wazungus that now at least people were taught to embrace animals as families and there's difference is seen now. Regardless, Africans own big companies like another one i saw oncitizen TV News, he owns big restaurants all over in different states in the USA. I really support Wazungus cause they mean good, FOR OUR WILDLIFE. I stand with Kuki Gallman 100%.

[@benmzuri]

@@planitakenya254 You need to educate yourself about the African way of life before colonial land grabs to understand how Africans treat animals. Africans lived side by side with wild animals for CENTURIES before mzungus came, grabbed lands and started ranches. Mzungus initiated ivory trade, trade in large quantities of animal skins and trophies which they hunted for sport. Africans never kill animals for sport or for sale. They hunt for food. The Samburu, Pokot, Borana, and Somali Communities who originally owned this land actually never hunt at all, as they are cattle keepers. These were their lands for THOUSANDS of years. This is originally community land. Conservancies were created right after independence in order to prevent colonial land grabs from being reverted to the true owners. Wazungu did not teach Africans to conserve wildlife. They decimated wildlife that had thrived with Africans for hundreds of years within less than 70 years of brutal colonial rule. And not just in Kenya. Read about the devastation of wildlife be white colonists in Canada, USA and South America. Mzungus is a virus. The most destructive creature, with the cunning ability to cheat idiots like you that they are HELPING you. When the destructive poaching, ivory trade had enriched them, they turned and now convinced you, Africans, that you need their help in conservation. Keep licking their butts and enjoy the taste. I advice you to Watch Wangari Maathais documentary "Taking Root" and watch BBC documentary"White Man's Country, The Kenya Colony" you will begin to get an idea of how deeply colonized you are and what demons these mzungus are. I bet you are also a Christian who worships white Jesus, white Man-god and white angels like the white man taught you. Lol. You are so deeply colonized and you will never know it. Poor thing. Keep licking those white feet and butts girl. They love your type. Africans who do not even know their history, do not know themselves and actually have learnt to hate themselves. You are the perfectly colonized specimen. Sad and hilarious at the same time.

[@planitakenya254]

@@benmzuri please Mr., no need to call me idiot! You are the idiot 🙄 here. No need to show how educated you are whereas you're using insulting words! You are illiterate in how you speak to people you barely know. Now that the damage is already done and Kuki and the other conservancy owners are trying their best to keep the wildlife safe, what's the problem with that! If some Wazungus were evil, it doesn't mean that all Wazungus are bad! Maji yakimwagika hayazoleki. We are also living in their countries happily. It's high time we learn to live as humans! Not as blacks and whites bluh bluh!

[@biancakfancy5996]

@@planitakenya254 benja is right ur deeply colonised and who told u afrikans are living happily in whitemans country. U need to educate urself on ur history it's clear ur clueless I bet u are those gal that dream of getting married to mzungu

[@stanley8176]

very apauling, it was about time local leaders started using the same modern techniques used by the Ranches, by drilling borehalls and irrigating their land so as to provide grazing areas all area round. one cannot just invade an individual farm in the pretext of drought. what if the roles were revised in their areas?

[@mpendakiswahili3053]

Homeguard wewe

[@thegreatnormad3424]

Muzungu and kikuyu are invading grazing land of Masai, pokot , turkana, samburu! Wtf these grazing field is farm who told you is an idol land???? Where did you gate the meat you eat with ugali every night? The land belongs to The indigenous communities not rangers from England. Very small portion of the land should be a range the rest to the community. Patrolist communities is united for this course. Kikuyu ni mwizi and its them who brings mzungu with them

[@jacksonkariuki857]

Your reasoning capacity is low

[@roddan404]

Elewa kizungu kwanza kabla uanze kupayuka.

[@umojapress2857]

@@roddan404 Huyu ni msomali takataka

[@georgenjenga4533]

Skia ile ujinga uko nayo .u don't develop ur rural areas and then blame kila MTU .how is killing our wildlife solving anything ama they also belong to mzungus and Kikuyu's . foolishness and illiteracy will eventually make u extinct.

[@timothykamau6005]

Who should be trained now, the police or the herders?

[@tudahke]

Complex problem...no easy answers.

[@alexking2020]

Not really.its just greed

[@samakikubwa7842]

The life of people is more valuable than wildlife

[@gilbos3726]

Everything is valuable

[@habasifisi1140]

BLAME UHURU/ RUTOS JUBILEE ADM. FOR SITTING ON THE TRJC REPORT !!! WE HEARD HIM EXPRESSIG HIS DESIRE TO HAVE THE OLD "KATIBA" SO THAT HE CAN H AVE SWEEPING POWERS LIKE HIS ÖLD FATHER!!! HE`SNT IN A HURRY TO IMPLIMENT IT AS KENYANS KNOW THAT HIS FAMILY ARE BIG BENEFICIARIES OF THIS ILLEGAL SYSTEM. SHAME ON THEM!!!!

[@mojakomau6965]

Are you still there move on

[@timothykamau6005]

Was it a positive or negative feedback?

[@charlesmwangi4909]

It's so unfortunate the person who calls him self an mp is talking bullshit instead of uniting pple

[@bensonchege8623]

Why are these herders or pasturists allowed to own firearms?????Kenyan government is to blame for allowing these thugs to attack and kill at will. They should make the law tough enough to discourage anyone thinking of owning an illegal firearm period....they are killing even the police who is meant to protect people and their properties

[@Mwafrika]

Or why do the pastoralists feel the need to arm themselves? Laws based on 'adopted or foreign' ideas and systems won't resolve these localized issues esp. land rights or ownership. I believe at the root of it all is limited resources and decolonial attitudes toward perceived historical land injustices

[@timothykamau6005]

If those who raid u own a dozen,why can't you own one.

[@timothykamau6005]

What are neocolonists?

[@macy98]

They had always failed, because of greed! African ways of life and their leadership. Depending of foreign aids,

[@josephmathenge8601]

Uyu MP wa Laikipia North aaiii.

[@samikadar]

If you have ever experienced drought and had to walk your livestock for kilometers looking for pasture you'll understand the pain of these pastrolists. Cattle cannot die because of a fence. It shall survive by any means necessary.

[@mabolokituyi5781]

49,800 acres Mugie Ranch is owned by Kenyatta family

[@alexchege3259]

WHITEMANS land in KENYA owned for more than 100yrs so we are still being colonised in a way I thought we had our lands back from 1963 UHURU tu ni jina hakuna kitu tuko nayo poor KENYANS,ata mimi nataka a piece of land in TEXAS ama COLRADO nipande MIMEA!!!!!!!!

[@hirammbugua7593]

We Ng'ombe tu, unatetea uharifu, kijana alipigwa akiwaletea smokiee

[@timothykamau6005]

What's is their solution? The ranchers, the hearders , the bandits or the Gvt? What of their culture?

[@timothykamau6005]

Was it a food web or a food chain?

[@mosesnjambi4148]

Hi Kenyan citizen hii vita serikari inajua juu ya siasa ya 2022 fungukeni macho

[@Mr4567891975]

How does a stranger own that much land and the real owners don't own anything

[@borneyeborneye9907]

That is what I wanted to hear

[@charlesweru7787]

Government should buy land for the natives,buy there animals to minimize that large numbers.lastly provide water through projects,educate them to venture out to other professionals

[@djfeskyofficial805]

The MP is igniting fire

[@kemalandfilms]

Don't leave the community behind build community lodges the idea of giving few people from the community Watchmen jobs and their wives beads making and honey packaging is slowly catch-up the same way you want more they are stretched by economic hardships and they want more too. Let's be fair as a country.

[@BoniOdinga-m5g]

Absolutely....they're living in denial...it is the same employees who give out intel to their peeps. The archaic Kenyan government policy on tourism and foreign investment needs to be domesticated (or revised periodically). It was only organic to the ab-initio drafters; the colonialists. What Kenyan natives/leaders do is, once you clamber onto the 'master's bandwagon' you kick the ladder away and look down with disdain at your not so fortunate kith and kin. To equally empower them is communism and impractical, but to just slightly improve their lot is very POSSIBLE since the government collects massive taxes, Refusal to do so is, ladies and gentlemen, as old as time; (trumpets) the French Revolution!....Don't ask the locals labelled as 'bandits': a colonial term, to go eat Cake! Do a bigger public borehole, the ASALS ministry should also encourage the growing of silage in these areas to mitigate drought...it is tough but it CAN BE DONE.

[@arapkimala146]

The wazungus must give back the land to the original owners - Samburus etc.

[@antoinekatembo8520]

Did they GRABBED it from the original owners???

[@NigelAnudo]

Agreed

[@omwantegal.1109]

Why is the interviewer sympathetic!?

[@timothykamau6005]

Who between the police and the rustlers is most trained?

[@eliudmkenya001]

Rustlers are battle hardened in the jungles since 5yrs for sake of survival , police are trained while grown ups in camps in the city for the sake of employment

[@rebeccanjeri8681]

Kwani wao wakienda kulisha hawaoni ni chamba ya wenyewe hawajui mimea na nyasi God is seeing you cannot go far

[@wanjiku28]

Soo sad that many leaders think about enriching themselves instead of helping those that put them in office. Hope the government will do something to enhance peace. And no foreigner should own land outside their countries, in Europe it's hard for foreigners to buy land. Labda awe ameoa ama kuolewa na mjeremani.

[@mpendakiswahili3053]

Are you not the same people that elect those people?

[@rcn689]

as david ndii said.the kenyan project is dead.

[@njorok7368]

Hyundai mutu amenonaaaa.The herders are sooo skinny

[@samakikubwa7842]

Why r they even calling it an "invasion"?

[@DM-ox6sh]

I support the MP. Unajua ni nini anasema

[@jamalkarissa7216]

Let them return our lands and this will stop. Seriously a mzungu cannot own over 1000 acres of land yet the locals don't have land to graze on.

[@ndiema2544]

Simon kiprono sio?😆

[@anthonykenneth.1780]

only two zebras killed yet we see lions,elephants,buffalos and giraffes killed speak the truth.

[@davidkaranja63]

The government should disarm all those using their guns irresponsibly. All guns should be licensed. Those killing animals in Laikipia there should be no mercy on them. Killing what God has given to Kenya to hold in trust for humanity should never be allowed

[@jacobkariuki7506]

cattle rustling shall be a thing of past . NPR shall be back in assistance with kenya police (AP & GSU) hence security shall restored again .

[@johnmuiruri9462]

Kuchoma na kuharibu itarudisha uhaii? Nyinyi wanasiasa Ndio mnawafanya watu wapigane . Huwezi riishaal ngombe shamba ya mtu ama umuimbie ngombe harafu ujifanye hakuna kitu happened. Saa hii lazima watu waheshimu wengine

[@ikengitau]

Honestly Samburu’s should start adopting sedentary life like the Turkanas have. That crying white woman and her ancestors are beneficiaries of what colonialists did to the Maasai. But they pastoralists should march the Kenyatta Family and eat everything there. Hapo hadi tutawatetea. Waende Delamere wakule kila kitu.

[@timothykamau6005]

What is the solution then?

[@samsonotieno8624]

Did the wazungus came with that land from England or wherever they came from, most of this pastoral regions their lands are community owned ..so if one foreigner own such big lands then the locals won't take it easy ..it's their ancestral land and for this one I salute them ..my opinion anyway

[@allenmaa7064]

The climate is changing. A desert is marching south from the Horn. That is the culprit behind the culprits. 22:43 "You know what Kenyan's are like....?" I assumed Mr. Evans was a Kenyan?

[@jacktoneogusoogilo5000]

This moving with animals from one place to another is outdated , there are modern ways of farming taught in schools.

[@charlesmbao6544]

Government is not doing enough

[@sallysally9011]

Why?

[@thegettojournalist6547]

Wazungu shamba gani wako nayo hapa Kenya .............

[@aneneedits]

MP ni stupid sasa shida utapeleka kwa mali ya mtu

[@jeffmburu6568]

The moment you shoot and kill a human being to save animals, that becomes very dangerous.

[@ongedoosungawanangayo3055]

If they are stealing and destroying poison the grass

[@Mr.Stingy]

This is sad.

[@charlesmwangi4909]

It's so unfortunate the person who is calling him self mp is talking bullshit instead of uniting pple

[@abdigiro7701]

The MP guy talk sheet he is not supposed to be an MP you dnt deserve

[@Kelekdental]

How can they own land for more than 100 years? Mchezo mtupu huo

[@alice.kimani9150]

Kwani jamtaki polis si muafikwe jeshi?

[@timothykamau6005]

What is the difference between the us government ousting the Talibans in Afghanistan and the Kenyan Government now? How do civilians own Guns? How can the government disarm one community, yet their neighbors have guns? It is like a community is being exposed.

[@timothykamau6005]

Such Wars date back from the scramble partition of Africa late 1880's.

[@sultandom1945]

Mzungu ruling our ranges still.

[@kevinmomanyi7996]

Who is this fool talking about can you return the life of this son....then stop attacking the house or burn them just graze and go why breaking the farm

[@timothykamau6005]

Or the police should be retrained?

[@tonymaina9787]

Think Laikipia need to be subdivide its to large to enable control.

[@kenyaglobalnewsnetwork35]

This Lempurkel seems to be quilty of incitement..

[@charliechamp356]

A white colonialist owning 45,000 acres of land in post independence Kenya! NKT!

[@naitoremarete4317]

Na ngombe ni za nini kama mutu hana shamba asikubariwe kuwa na ngombe kila mtu apunge gombe yake kwa shamba yake ujinga ni mingi kenya What is important is a cow or a human

[@wambuimngoso9893]

Izo mashamba ni za wamasaai

[@raismantish9398]

its our lnd

[@khiprpanderson2901]

So what? You want to kill people for that??

[@jameskiai2514]

Let her get out of ...

[@WilliamGatoto]

This is an age old issue that needs to be sorted out with FINALITY! These are bandits

[@kevinho553]

THE MP is reasoning on the ground matters

[@elizabeththiongo3178]

insightment a problem here.

[@georgegathura9393]

Communal land irudishwe.

[@pamelaakelo87]

Masai have acres and acres of land why can't they look for away to plant grass or save grass for there cows,when will there leaders wake up and teach there flock

[@s.koileken369]

*So you support those Wazungus with 50,000+ acres of land, while the so called illegal grazers have little land, or live in the margins? Look at S. Africa and Zimbabwe for how things will unfold there - this conflict is not over until the land returns to their original owners in one way or another.*

[@mosesmomanyi8435]

Is tresspassing a crime?

[@mosesmomanyi8435]

Very true.. The government has already taken care of tje situation.. We all need sanity of peace.

[@timothykamau6005]

Who talks the truth now?

[@wuodabandu2160]

This mp is a noo

[@matts6894]

Why kill a Jumbo?

[@timothykamau6005]

Is police the solution?

[@michaelmeja7217]

These people should just sell the lands and turn to farmers. Hapa ingekuwa ni bill gates angeshatengeneze kirusi cha hizi mifugo zikufe zote waanze kulima. Meanwhile, communal lands should be subdivided and members allorted individual parcels. This way, they will be able to maintain their parcels and even water the grases for the animals.

[@timothykamau6005]

What are the effects of global warming?

[@manchesterunitedakamrtread8317]

Land land and land again

[@a.k5759]

seems an episode of the walkin dead

[@marthbetz169]

Wewe useless unasema ng'ombe ndio maisha yao! what about wenye mimea? wao mimea sio maisha yao? can you try to reason like a person with brain

[@jacksonmwangi1297]

Lempurken know what he is doing but the impact of his action shall leave his pple in agony since he feels superior now there comes a day when the well he has dug shall consume him coz surely i was born raised in laikipia west but conflict of such magnitude has never been experienced for the last 35years av lived there the invation and damage to the ecosystem where now others take the advantage of charcoal burning since the police have been undermined shall turn this land into desert, why abuse our heritage with a day and leave in agony for years to come? ??