I just returned from three weeks in Kenya. While I was in Nairobi I spent a night at a small hotel in downtown Nairobi where I had stayed
a couple of times before. I met with ECLEA-Kenya national coordinator Ernest Mwilitsa there. After he left, I
went out to dinner. My room was locked and my two bags were also locked. While
I was gone, someone opened my room and unlocked my bags. They stole my camera
from one bag, a laptop I was bringing to a Ugandan I know from the other bag,
and my phone charger I had plugged into the wall.
It had to have
been an inside job. I told the receptionist, and she seemed completely
uninterested (I suspect she is the one who alerted her confederate when I had
left, since I had told the receptionist I was going to dinner). I told the
security guard on duty, and he agreed that it was an inside job but did nothing
else.
I thank God that it was nothing worse than that
and everything else of particular value (except my books which were of no
interest to the thief) were on my person. I was, of course, targeted because I
was the only Mzungu in the place. All of which means that there will be no
photos from this trip. But, as I say, I have much to be thankful for. I am safe
and this theft helps keep things in proper perspective for me. The work of this
ministry continues productively and unabated.
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