If I were tech savvy, I would have set a hashtag, “Someone Tell Zuku,” to inaugurate a campaign to compel the service provider to respect private property.
But since I am not tech savvy, I will relay the message from the man my son Tumaini calls Guka. He has sent a kiama to Zuku, seeking the removal of their cables from his Mamlaka Court property. I’m quoting him full verbatim: “If you see those people from Zuku, tell them I’m still waiting for them to remove the cables dangling across my compound. I don’t know what language they understand since this is the second time I am sending them a kiama.
“I recently saw those Zuku men somewhere on Arboretum Drive, camped under a tent seeking new business. But when I returned the following day, ready to confront them, I found they were gone. So I’m sending you again.
“If you see them, tell them to come get their cables from my compound. Some of those wires criss-cross my balcony, and at my age, I don’t know what could happen if the current carried in those wires decided to go in the wrong direction and reached my bed.
Respect my age
“Tell Zuku if they cannot respect the laws of the land, tell them to respect my age. Tell them this is the last time I am sending them kiama. Tell them my patience is running out and they have got no idea what an old man might do when his patience runs out. Tell them they have been warned, for the second time.”
