quicksand wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:quicksand wrote: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.
give due credit, baba uk and baba gidi did a very good job as far as security was concerned, they might have rubbed a number of people the wrong way and in wrong parts - but heck, insecurity was never allowed to sink this low.
somalia has been lawless from the early 90's
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.
boss, big picture ni gani - superhighways with matatus being blown off the same.
I am specific to security not the economy, you can have a secure but poor nation - tz, malawi ..., you can also have a poor but insecure nation.
the former regimes ran a very well organized security apparatus with the provincial administration at the centre.
it like robbing a household then standing guard to prevent the serial killers from coming in.
anagalia the small picture boss, hiyo kubwa haiwezi onekana