Esther Arunga is a Psychiatric Case!

Seeing Esther Arunga in the dungeon corridors as if she is a cheap slut after a night swoop elicits but a single emotion: PITY! That she had the nerve to smile and wave to the cameras like a prisoner of conscience being whisked away by loathsome agents of a police state confirms our most dreaded fear; that she needs some urgent psychiatric attention!

The often time loquacious country, Kenya, is for once unanimous in prayer after it lost words on what to make of Esther Arunga’s decadence in the name of following a one-man-church that fits all the descriptions of a worthless cult.

It beats all expectations for a veritable TV Queen who was admired by many and loved by the multitude, to come into such disgrace in such a short time. It numbs the mind to witness a beauty who is supposed to be mellowing the all too pugnacious news that is our politics with her reassuring smiles to overnight turn into a cult melodrama.

That Esther Arunga, the confident and intelligent looking lady, a role model living the ‘Kenyan Dream’, if ever there is any, is now a convergence of national sympathy is too flummoxing.

Beauty, intellect and charm are too uncommon a combination to be found in a single soul but Esther Arunga had it all in abundance. You could see it in her dazzling eyes, grace and composure. To watch all these crumble in a sordid whirlwind is way too disconcerting. It is very hard on her family, friends and fans. Nobody saw this coming, even if they did, they did not have the heart to believe it.

Never have I mourned a celebrity’s misdemeanor. In any case, it is such scandals that make celebrities worth our interest. But, there is something in Esther Arunga’s downfall that resembles the feeling of catching your younger sister messing with boys. You cannot be indifferent but take time to talk some sense into her little head.

I seldom care about the conduct of the distant guy on TV who chooses to go down the gutter, after all, fate befall all of us in different versions. But with Esther Arunga, I refuse to believe that she has lost it. Even if it is wishful/wistful thinking, then this is what I need for the moment. I would rather live in denial than believe that Esther Arunga is gone to the dawgs! This gal was just loveable. There is this cord of concern that refuses to snap for her. I believe it is not an isolated feeling.

The sight of a bamboozled family and a coterie of her friends in the police station checking on Esther Arunga is just not like her kind of scene. It is unlike of Esther Arunga to be hauled into a police cell. Cells were not made for some people like Esther Arunga. At least not on a charge of belonging to a wannabe cult run by a screwball called Joseph Hellon! I bequeath her more brains than this.

Now, what is to be done?

Some may argue that we leave Esther Arunga alone to follow her spiritual desires. But this ignominy called the ‘the Finger of God Church’ is hardly a spiritual thing. A church that alienates one from a job and family is a scourge not a church. Religion by essence is devoid of reason but a cult is on the extreme end of this continuum. It does not border on lunacy but it is an embodiment of it. It is founded on oddity and is driven by passionate dereliction of reality. Historically, no good has ever come out of a cult.

Most cults have an aspect of sex in it. Members undergo perpetual baptism of sex. Don’t be surprised that ‘the Finger of God Church’ involves sex orgies, this could be the reason the cops were quick to act. The fact that minors were involved could have added to the impetus. It is justified to worry about our beloved Esther!

From the rabid look in her press conference to her bizarre smiles at the police station, I decipher one thing. Esther Arunga is absolutely non compos mentis. She is most definitely out of her mind. Certainly not schizoid but a psychological condition that only shrinks and doctors can define. We obviously have a patient.

I am not trying to insinuate that Esther Arunga is stark crazy. Far from it. Doctors use a number of parameters to define madness. To be sane, an individual’s opinion should be dependable by others in society. I wonder how many people can take Esther’s idea on religion. Another parameter relates to being able to take care of oneself. If you waste yourself and harm your reputation that is not good care of oneself and to some extend you qualify for a mental asylum. This is what Tiger Woods realized, that is why he is in a rehab.

Whether she has denounced her family or not, as soon as she is out of the cells, her family. I repeat, her family, should demand that she accompany them for an urgent date with a doc. If need be, by a court order. The next thing is to demand that the nonce called Joseph Hell-on, should keep a radius of ten kilometers away from Esther Arunga. That fellow is a witch who put Esther Arunga under a spell of voodoo. What else can explain the complete moral degradation of our beloved Esther Arunga?

I cannot afford to see Esther Arunga becoming a cheap martyr of idiocy. She has better use of her life than to be an object of pity and a subject of bemusement.

From the bottom of my heart, I wish Esther Arunga a most very quick recovery from this most very unfortunate streak of insanity!