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THREE KENYAN soldiers in plainclothes shot dead by assailants in #Garissa while changing a flat tyre at a car garage. #KDF

...crazy.

On security matters, fate is not on our side. The biggest failure seems to be leadership, intelligence deficiency and ill-preparedness. Our officers are not sure who the enemy is, who funds the enemy, and when the enemy is going to strike. Unfortunately, the officers are also not adequately prepared to quell sporadic traces of unrest occurring simultaneously in several areas. Our officers, and the current leadership, have adopted a knee jerk attitude towards serious security threats. This is a very worrying trend going into the elections next year. Historically, the election period has been known to trigger foreseen and unforeseen tensions between communities.

The recent security lapses such as the aftermath of Abdul Rogo's killing ,Tana River and Bargoi killings, expose fundamental weaknesses in the country's security. MRC issue remains unresolved, and who knows what surprises groups such as mungiki have in store? Enter the aftermath of the bus explosion in Eastleigh, and you have the right recipe for disaster. Religious fights might breach our fragile peace in unprecedented terms. It has happened before, it has happened elsewhere,and the current pointers should be acted on swiftly.

I echo another member's sentiments that Kibaki gets an F on matters to do with security. We should place our hopes on the next leadership because the current leadership has not prioritized security.

At this rate, I might need a visa to Faroe Islands. For now, things are not looking up.

Sums up his entire 10years of misrule. It was a mistake ab inito ....Swearing him at night

I strongly echo your sentiments.

Wapi Mc doba to pass the message to him during kitchen cabinet meeting this week

Really?? from what I saw Garissa was literally burning.

Hope you are an eye witness since what I saw on TV was not fire.

These are problems that have incubated for a long term only now coming to a volatile eruption. Deep seated corruption and destruction of institutions by the Kenyatta, Moi and even Kibaki's regimes ensured that our security organs lost competence ..we can't pay the police a reasonable wage, so for very long they took bribes and allowed criminal enterprise to take root; the state allowed the border between Kenya and Somalia become porous, they can't manage refugees within our borders. Corruption at the Home (Home?) office started selling Kenya's citizenship for a song, end result we have so many undesirables living in our midst doing illegal activity unchecked. They are too many, they have lived here illegally for too long, we can't track them all now.
But leaving Somalia to be a lawless state next door would have been a worse mistake, with more catastrophic consequences in the future.

Bila. They wrecked Kenya's economy. Security is heavily dependent on a healthy, thriving economy to be reliable. Busting a few people's nuts is not a good security strategy. No credit is due to them. It's like robbing a household and then passing the family members a chapati each to pacify them. Angalia the big picture boss.