TERRORIST BOMB BLAST IN
NAIROBI
http://www.pilotafrica.com/2012/05/28/kenya-pm-ralia-odinga-blames-al-shabab-for-massive-nairobi-explosion/
PRAISE GOD..
Just a note to let you know how the visa thing is
going. I spent all yesterday downtown with Joshephat running around. We had to
get a letter from the people who did the visa the last time saying they had no
objection to switching to a different organization and to get the copy of the
old work permit. Without going into all the gory details, I met Joshephat
downtown and we walked to an office which seemed to be all the way across
Nairobi. Every time I walk somewhere without pain I have to thank God that the
problems I used to have with my legs are gone. Anyway, after some lengthy
discussions, and giving them 2,000 Ksh "lunch money", they reluctantly agreed to
give us the required papers. They were trying their hardest to get more money
from me, saying that I was supposed to be paying them 5,000 Ksh each year and so
on. But I flat out told them that wasn't happening and they eventually saw that
they weren't getting any more money. They said they couldn't give the letter
until the next day (which meant another trip into town) but at least we would
get what was required.
On the walk back to the place where we catch the matatu we saw
smoke and what looked like a big fire at the place where we had left a short
time before. When we stopped for lunch it was all over the TV that there had
been an explosion on Moi Avenue, just a block from where I had spent an hour and
a half waiting for Joshephat. There were many people injured and
there was blood everywhere. I haven't heard yet if anyone died or if it was the
Al Shabaab terrorists that caused it. Guess that is about it for now. Stan
