Why Dr. Ben Carson should stop Lying about his Fake Kenyan Roots

Dr.Carson addressing a a crowd

Giving credence to the recent speech that US presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson gave during his presidential bid launch saying that he hails from the Turkana tribe in Kenya, I find it to be very untrue and two-faced .He is heard saying that his great, great, great grandparents originated from the migratory tribe of Turkana who are from Tanzania and Kenya which is very wrong.

This is my own version of the truth, and I wish Dr.Ben Carson could read this too. Before giving such a big statement when the whole world was watching, Dr.Carson should have gone deep into the history books which show the map of eastern Africa and how all the current Kenyan tribes found their way into Kenya. For instance Carson doesn’t know the distance between the Kenyan north eastern where the Turkana people currently stay and Tanzania which borders Kenya from the south east. There is no way they could have migrated to or from Tanzania with tens of violent tribes between. The area too is very vast and in fact when you check on the map it’s about 1,409.9 kilometers apart, the Turkana people were even further in the North (Sudan), so there is nothing like Turkana migration from Kenya and Tanzania. The only migratory tribe in Kenya and Tanzania are the Maasai. 

Giving the fact that I come from Kenya and I remember very well about the history of all tribal migration to Kenya which I learned in my primary school days, I think Dr .Ben Carson is lying, he might have been miss-advised by his political advisers that for any  black American   to make it to the white house which seats in the capitol hill of new York, he must hail from Africa and more specifically Kenya, just like Barrack Obama Jr. which   is wrong. So my advice to him is to first understand the terrain of eastern Africa very well before contradicting himself on international television, not unless he meant to say the Maasai people and not the Turkana people. Again he should concentrate and work hard on real issues affecting Americans in his campaign strategy and avoid petty lies like ‘’ you know I originate in Kenya, Africa.Liars should have good memory.

by: Naftal Oyunge,

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