In this saga, it is very easy for anyone to mislead and try to re-write history of our father Mwalimu Valerian a.k.a Cleff or Mchapiro or Kiwera, as many used to call him. You may have a distorted notion that the dead dont speak, but let me tell you something, "the dead do indeed speak and they speak through their legacy, off springs and living memories that are passed through generation to generation, regardless of what conditions are". If you want to bet otherwise, then you can be our best guest and tell us if you just came from the vacuum and happened to be on this mother earth by yourself. If you did not come from the vacuum then you came from somewhere and and someone (Parents and not cloned). The someone that are responsible for your being, are indeed existing in you and you are their prolongation. If Slavery, the utmost atrocities of human being the earth has seen that lasted for centuries, did not break and end the being of the African American, then no one can just try to wipe out the history of any free man who tracks his roots and still well connected to his offspring generations to come. Only a fool can think about how to tarnish such freeborn man.
Mwalimu Valerian lived his life fully and as natural born free man he had his share of good and bad, just as we all are. Not when he is forever long gone now, some few of his own now are trying to tarnish his legacy because of their personal gains. We, Valerian Family, urging you all out there to stop this saga and we are him and his prolongation, face it. Remember that he lived his life fully and he made the best out of it for himself, those who were around him and above all for his family. Who remember the hard times Tanzania went through during the Independence, Arusha Declaration, Uganda/Idi Amin war and the ordeal of socialism/communism? Everything, including human basic needs, was centralized and the strong arm of the might Mwalimu Nyerere Government was tightening everything from workers, farmers and business owners. Even sugar was rationed by number of family members and many basic things were considered luxurious. Do you people remember that era? We do and we experienced the magnificent of our father, Mwalimu Valerian and his survival skills to make the end meet for his family and relatives.
As we were children we saw our father working as Teacher/Mwalimu during the day and making merchandizes to sell during the nights and weekends. Some of you remember how he used to go by train From Moshi to Dar-Es-Salaam, hustling selling boiled maize/corn, home made envelops and paper glue, and other goods that he made by his own hands just to make a buck. Yet, we, children and him, used to pick up tars from the trees and make paper glue, parking them in the bottles and selling them, just to make a burk. Our parents sew our clothes by hand and knitting clothes for us for God's sake. whenever he went to Dar-Es-Salaam, which was every other weekend, he would come with bags of over 100kg of rice, peanuts, Corn/yellow maize/Yanga flour sugar and wheat for sale. Thanks to the centralized communism/socialism policies then.
Also, with all the hardship, he managed to give to his siblings" family whatever the small he had, as hand-out. Oh! how about the cars? Good Lord!!!!! Help us in this saga. We love this subject because to those who dont know a thing about them, like to speak as if someone is God and just brought the cars like food, "Mana From Heaven". If that is was so, can we see cars coming like "Mana From Heaven" again?
Here is the scenario to those who make noises and dont know a thing about the cars. Take an empty and full bucket, and bang them by stick or an object. Then observe which one makes more loud noises. The empty bucket will obviously make more and loud noises, and these are examples of the loud mouths talking junk about our father in relations to the cars. They have no fact but making noises like an empty buckets. Sadly, many ears hear noises and mostly coming from the empty bucket, then respond by follow where the noises are coming from and only can see buckets but can tell which is empty or full. Another sad story is that only very few try to shake the buckets and find out which one is empty and full. Now who are you? An empty bucket or a full bucket? Are you making some noises or not? Do you have the facts? You know the truth.
We are not bragging but these are the facts. Like/take them or leave them. They are still remaining the facts and dont tell us that we are harsh. We did not take the worms out of the cans. Remember that very well. We are facing the world as it is. We have to learn how to navigate through it and survive in it. Yet, we have to make the best out of it and in the accordance of the Almighty God who sent us here, on the earth journey. Therefore, let's get along and travel through the mother earth by the rules set by God Jehovah who created all of us and with purpose in each and everyone of us here.
Whenever he came with these products, for years in our child hood, he would share with his siblings and their families (our uncles/aunts with our cousins). He spoke, treated and dealt with them all with dignity, respect and genuine love from his heart. He shared most of his wealthy, small or big, with his relatives, sadly sometimes he forgot about his own nuclear family. He paid for tuition and bribe the authorities for his nieces and nephews to either get education, a job or a deal that further prospered their lives. I understand that we human being have got very short memories, but facts of life follow us whenever we are, rooting from the decisions we make in our lives.
No one can ever say he had hatred and agenda toward them, and yes, he quarreled and sometimes had misunderstanding with some of his relatives, but he never fail to repair the relationships. He held no grudges or maltreated anyone. We all are human being and no one is perfect, remember that. We are not trying sanctify our father or ourselves, but we have reserved a lion share of mistreatment from the very relatives that are ought to protect us. No matter how common such malpractices and hatred we are encountering may be, they are wrong and painful feeling for any human to feel and experience. But one thing we know through, his life and now our life, we hold no grudges or hating on anyone or carry agenda on anyone. It is sad that we have experienced these things and actually physically be invaded by some of our relatives, who are trying to exploit the leadership vacuum left by our father. Sadly in their mind they think they will break us into peaces.
The irony is that what you expressed as our weakness and shame to the family and public, that our father had too many children, is indeed out strength, and corner stone pillar. The more his many children get their children and their children's children, the more a chance for you, none-Valerian Family out there, are weaker in this saga of invading us and our home. Who could think of this before shamelessly dish out these arrogant words that "Valerian is the shame because he had so many children"? God gracious, help the humanity to see your kindness and accept you and your glory.
He did all that for the love of his relatives in the expenses of his
wife and children. Many did not take a note of that because they
were on the receiving end and benefiting his courage and big heart of love. But let
me tell you something, if God was human being, we, Valerian Family,
could be in a bad shape. Because, what we see from many, who actually
benefited directly from our father, is arrogance that later developed
into hatred. The manifested arrogance we see is when they think our family as weaker and forced to succumb to just give away everything; and the shameless sense that they themselves are powerful and in the place of taking whatever belongs
to us. What we are trying to say here is that, those who became
arrogant and developed such dangerous hatred, are poisoned by their mentality that our
father was giving to them because he was weak and them are takes
because they are strong. But let us tell you something people, it is
actually vise-vase and reverse. Don't confuse his kindness and or our love as weakness.
to be edited and continued.
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