and are these plaincloth cops psychic as well.how will they find the grenade if they dont search people,wont i think twice bout carryin a grenade when there is a probability of being stopped and searched at random? They should be thorough in doing their work..you get the feeling that they're not doing enough to secure the country.

@murchr are you a member of the force! Look, citizens will come through with information when and if police get organized acquire some integrity and begin to work like they want to help citizens. So many cases of people snitching to police on possible crimes and criminals and same evening the criminals come after your head. Other times the policemen themselves engage in crime to add onto their wealth (and please don't talk about salaries). I am 200% sure you can move a nuclear war head from Nairobi to Embu, Nyeri, Nakuru etc safely past 10 police checks in the morning hours between 7- 11 am. The reason is simple, the police spend that time collecting revenue from mats, trucks and old pick ups, heck you can even move a fertilizer bomb in a new double cab track. You will never get stopped on these roads at those times.

Now someone said thorough and consistent checks would deter people from contemplating such criminal activities but with lack of interest or distractions such as revenue collection, there is every encouragement for criminals to have a party at us.

Terrorists are ferocious determined to strike under any situation . Police has a limit what they can do even if they want. The best way to deter terrorism is citizen policing. It's the best and most viable of the options . In a volatile region like kenya, they should bring policies to enhancing and strengthening sharing of crucial information with competent authorities. Also shared leads must be confidential and depending of importance should be compensated. Otherwise kenya will degenerate further to anarchy and terror aka kaduna and Kano very soon.

i seriously believe you are alfred mutua.

Well said.