reacher and divinely ordained sermon are part of the reasons for Holy Spirit to work thus in the heart of men-men that had not sealed their heart in the first place!

INSPECTOR THAT NEVER SEIZE FUNCTIONING

Life in the village in those days was amazing. One of the things our mother feared then was the news that sanitary inspectors are coming to their street. No matter how clean the mix may look like, these agents of neatness will still find one or two things to complain about. We children thought that these people are not living among men.

 I can still remember asking my father where they came from. Are they also urinating and excreting like other human being? Have these people also have children that can mess up their compound as we use to do? I cannot remember precisely the answer to those heart bogging questions of mine from daddy, but I can still remember my father telling me that many of these people are trained to detect as quick as possible they step into your compound the wrong place you put the needle and have the mandate of the (white man) colonial master to arrest you for such offense.

Our focus in this write up is about the fear in the heart of our mothers that is well written on their faces when ever sanitary inspectors are around. I can remember when a woman is taken away to the local government office; it took the whole neighborhood 3days to gather enough money to process her freedom. In the village it is reproach on any family mostly the husband of the woman that had to be arrested for uncleanness.

Sanitary inspectors usually comes to the village unannounced, they can come in the morning or afternoon time. Immediately their convoy is sighted the women we use their best net-work on ground through which they get themselves inform at ones. In time like this, nobody remembers that someone offends her or not. They are closely netted together in keeping watch for one another; in fact if the line of communication got broken which in turn led to arresting any woman, the person responsible would be severely punished for it.   It is mostly the affairs between women and the government officials since by then men folds might have been on farm or outside in their working place.

When I think of incident like this now as a grown up I laugh and also think of the lessons I can derive. If majority of our mothers at that time  could as well feared God, things could have been better in various homes than what we have on ground today; It is apparently clear that they did not have half of such fear and reverence towards their respective husbands not to talk of God. Well, things had changed drastically; every individual had come to understand his or her right and the moderation to such rights. We have nothing to fear when we know we are not doing anything against our well being or that of the community.

Our sanitary inspectors have either went to sleep or they are doing skeleton job, so their effect were not as pronounced as it used to be in those days. But I tell you each and every one of us have inspectors in-built in us that will not stop working till we give up the ghost; ‘Our conscience’. The conscience has been given to us as police. To approve or condemn us in our various day to day decisions and actions so we will not do what is socially unacceptable, but we will uphold the societal moral-spiritual values.

Government or it agents may not be always there but one eyes is seeing us inside out, that we needed to be aware of and reverence more than any other thing. We should fear God by doing what He loves. We should give due respect to the government and its delegates. We afraid when we are at conflict with the laws and regulations that can enhance peaceful coexistence within the framework of constitutionally acceptable norms.