A few weeks ago, Dr Amakove Wala started a kindaski fish eatery business where she has been serving fish dishes infused with African spices. The business is known as Koven Kafe and is located outside the Bomas of Kenya.

Expectedly, Dr Wala has used her extensive social media presence to market and promote the business, and she has been gaining tremendous traction. However, her rich background in the medical professional and her current kibanda fish venture has not sat in well with a few people who went to ‘Alliance’.

One of these is Starlings Muchiri, the current vice chairman of the Alliance High School Old Boys Club and a mentor at both Alliance Boys and Alliance Girls. On Sunday, Muchiri penned a note declaring protesting that Dr Wala, a gifted medical professional, was now fish-mongering, and reducing the status of the Alliance Alumni.

Here is what Muchiri said:

“Dr Amakove,

I write to you as a brother from Across. I write to you as the current Vice Chairman of the Alliance High School Old Boys Club.

I write to you as a person who is called upon to speak to and mentor students of AHS and AGHS.

I write to you as a person who has hired countless Busherians looking for a foothold in the market, for professions they trained for but struggle to find placements.

I write to you because in my opinion, you are peddling a false and dangerous narrative to the calibre of people that our schools produce.

You are peddling a narrative that being gifted counts for nothing. You are peddling a narrative that being focused on achievements counts for nothing. You are flaunting your polymorphic talents to peddle the false narrative that your less talented brothers and sisters can peel garlic and smoke fish in the morning and dine with president and foreign dignitaries in the evening.

I have no problem if this is a deliberate narrative for women empowerment, in which case you need to communicate it as so, with necessary caveats rather than post for clicks.

I have a problem when you send the message to highly gifted youngsters that you can be highly gifted, go to medical school, serve in the medical field then resort to fish mongering and it is ok.

This is a dangerous narrative that may sell to certain interests but is highly misplaced to highly talented Busherians that hold their weight against anyone and everyone in the world. Kindly not consider this as a personal attack, but an enlightenment towards what is good and proper in the ordinary society.

Starlings Muchiri.”

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