{"id":10219,"date":"2023-02-16T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:26:47","slug":"how-i-quitted-poaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10219","title":{"rendered":"How I quitted poaching."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hunting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hunting-2.jpg 643w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hunting-2-480x327.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 643px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a son of a poacher and having been brought up in a village that exist in the canopy of Mt Kenya Forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was acclimated into poaching and that was my way of life and a major economical activity of Matind\u00fbruko Ja mara\u00ee village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A perfect poacher knows poaching is technically considered a criminal offence so he should be either early riser or lychnobite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was an early riser. Before cockcrow that was my time to start poaching activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One <a><\/a>Day if my memory servers my well, vividly I remember it was on 25th December . I woke up took my tools of work as usual Knife, arrows , bow, match box and finally whistled for my dog Simba to awoke him and alert him we are ready for our usual poaching businesses in the forest we should leave immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we quickly left and few metres from our homestead I met &#8220;Ramare&#8221; Ameru worriers around 200 in number who bumped into me singing &#8220;othi&#8221; circumcision disco and my Simba could not withstand this he swiftly escaped since today I have never ever seen him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again my tools of work &#8220;varnished&#8221; to be precise they were stolen by &#8216;ramare&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They started anointing me with white soil on forehead a requirement by Ameru tradition for boy who is meeting &#8220;Mutani&#8221;circumciser &#8220;K\u00fbringwa ira&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most common method of poaching being pitfall traps, a large holes dug in the ground covered with leaves and plants to trap animals trying to cross over. They were admonishing me for stealing their trapped animals but I was never given a chance to mount my re-battle defense. According to me their accusations was malice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was stripped and taken into the river Kathita immersed in a could water because cold water provides anesthesia before meeting circumciser &#8220;Mutani&#8221;. After Mutani was done he blessed me cleansed his knife using milk and honey and that how I quitted poaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a son of a poacher and having been brought up in a village that exist in the canopy of Mt Kenya Forest. I was acclimated into poaching and that was my way of life and a major economical activity of Matind\u00fbruko Ja mara\u00ee village. A perfect poacher knows poaching is technically considered a criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hunting-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}