Security NOW!!!

It is sad when a nation's security situation cannot be guaranteed to the citizens but it is even horrifying when the very organs of the state that are empowered and equipped to guarantee the said security themselves seem in dire need of help.
The security personnel in Kenya are in the cross hairs of forces (either foreign or domestic) yet to be identified. Forces so darely and bold they don't seem to care who they shoot at, Administration Police, Regular Police or KDF soldiers! This puts the ordinary mwananchi in a very scary situation. This might be the result of decades of in-breeding and nurturing impunity and general disregard of the law. It is even sadder that the real cause of the death of the immediate former Internal Security minister together with his deputy is yet to be known.
The Kenyan government(s) needs to get off the habit of knee-jerk responses and reactionary tactics in the face of national issues. The government's response to the Garisa incident is appalling. Even before the security personnel have investigated fully to know who or where the perpetrators of the original crime are, they mount an invasion and generally terrorize a town in total disregard of who is innocent or guilty. They thus loose the citizens' trust and goodwill, and the chance of ever finding the culprits and breed more disgruntled elements to attack them in future.
Now we have the Police force mounting their own operation into one end of the vast norther frontier in response to the massacre of their comrades while the Military is mounting their own into another section of the same frontier in response the murdering of three of their colleagues. Now that is a very sad situation.
While all that is happening, citizens with ancestral connections with the same northern frontier are being harassed and victimized in the city of Nairobi by criminal gangs and of course, they state the Police are not coming to their aid. They shout there is no government in Kenya! These statements, though unsubstantiated, could be very disturbing if true.
It is high time the government put everything on hold and be seen to be in control. The attention however, as all these happen, is the posturing and positioning of the politicians as they align themselves for the coming elections. All of them of course pleading with the citizens to register for the polls, reminding the citizens  of the evils of the post election violence of the yesteryears!!

Let's Be Clear

March is coming. A lot can happen in march as history can reveal. As happened to one Julius Caesar, who believed he had no capacity to fear anyone, the august house and the other one 'on the hill', in Nairobi are begging for respectable occupants. The contenders need to fear us, the voters, for as in the nursery school rhyme, 'Ngunyî-îrî maara-î', we can sing it (and we will) and pull out all those thirsting for our blood and public resources.
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Ngunyî-îrî maara-î, nîikunyanaga-î, ta mwana na nyina-î,

Kunyûkia kagîo.....

The lineage of masters as inherited from the colonialists by our fathers and grandfathers is still plaguing us today in the poor disguise of reformists. They would want us believe they have our interests at heart but we now know better where their hearts lie- in the interests of their bank accounts. Their fathers told our fathers that they would eradicate poverty, disease and ignorance, these ills still hold us in bondage and their sons and daughters don't seem to notice it. They are in ignorance of our plight.