Look, this is not a helpless complicated situation as one Tinga tinga and Mulonzo would make us believe. The police took an oath to protect civilians and maintain law and order so that the rest of us can go on with our lives with plenty of peace of mind. Regardless of location - Nairobi / Garissa / Mombasa, it beholves bw. Iteere to wake up from the slumber he is in, put on his thinking cap and give direction on how we are going to reduce and posibily eliminate this problem.

Simply by always repeating after every attack that our officers are on top of things and we are doing much more more to protect more attacks on civilians than is visible to the naked eye is absolute NONSENSE!! I bet the cops are hapless and clueless and things are substantially above them and to an extent if I was Kibaki by now I would have formed a very visible anti terrorism unit with cops, Intelligence officers and soldiers that would be very visible in all border towns and key towns. Mboys in blue scare no one and worse still we all know they are poorly equipped and exposed. How do you tell cops to stand outside a church and the only thing they have to protect their bodies is a Sweater or the blue shirt. That G3 is no weapon when a goon appears suddenly with another weapon!! Really sad. Why can't Iteere even request for funding to buy bullet proof vests, sophisticated detecting equipment etc?

In Uganda after the July 2010 bombings, the level of security went up 5 times higher lots of intelligence gathering, mean looking security personnel patrolling the towns, all buildings being vetted by police and intelligence for security preparedness etc. In kenya Tuko tu!

I find it hard to imagine.

This eyewitness on tv spoke of how she saw 3 men appear at the gate,ran inside and screamed 'tumekutwa' but as usual,nobody took her seriously.
She ran and hid at the front.
By then, the criminals had already gained entry and started their indiscriminate shooting.
How did such a large no of guys in balaclavas evade all police checks in Garissa as they drove to the venue?
Surely,they couldn't have been in an open pickup!
And having 2 cops man a big church like that is nothing but pure jokes.
They need to intall cctvs at strategic places to monitor movements 24/7.

We always point fingers on the wrong people...we as a people need to change. We are hiding information about these thugs. Youth in Garisa were seen celebrating when this massacre happened. If the GSU is sent there...all sort of cries will be heard from human rights groups etc..up to today we have no law inplace that can be used against these people so even when the cops arrest people on suspicion they cant take them to court nor hold them for more than 48hrs. How is the police expected to work. Would you have the morale to do it if it was you? I am not absorbing them from corruption and laxity claims but i think our security should be the responsibility of each and everyone.

I personally would like to hear/see our media getting more aggressive not in condemning the cops/govt but in educating Kenyans on how a grenade looks like...on the powders that are being discovered in bags, and any other weapon associated with terror. By the way, does the 999 call line work? Are there new numbers?

On the red....to suck up, swallow up etc...

And yes, you are paranoid...my take is that we need information eg...if we see unga, what else should we see to know that this unga is dangerous?

A person carrying it suspicioulsy is enough.
People carrying drugs are busted cz they are always nervous.
Kenyans tufunzwe facial profiling and the more paranoid we become the better.

. the 2 policemen guarding the aic church we reading newspapers/mag or whatever.that was literally sleeping on the job.if they were alert,with their 2,AK 47 and 60 round of ammunitions they could have repulsed the 4 hounded terrorists.this would have mitigated the live loses.

I feel really bad about this .kenyan police are a complete let down. while the millitary is working hard to clear the terrorists the police is busy taking bribes on the road where accidents are even taking more lives than the grenades due to lack of law enforcement /compromised police and sleeping on the job.
who doesn't know that the vehicle inspection unit at nairobi area is a bribe collection center.
who doesn't know that something is wrong at eastleigh?

I still insist, the police are f***ing up the primary responsibilities of keeping law and order and protecting civilians. Please bwana Itere take a few of your mboys to Uganda and see have Gen. Kale Kayihura did to ward off these shabaabs. When you walk around Kampala even in the most densely populated zones you see several layers of 'sechurete' which gives you the confidence it's unlikely a goon would attempt what shabaabs are doing in Nairobi, Msa and Garissa.

Theorizing and telling us security is the work of civilians borders on light weight thinking. Furthermore we pay taxes so that we don't have to be burdened with too much policing. We expect when the threats increase bwana iteere to walk across the street and tell Githae to cough some chums to hire more policemen or get more vests or get better surveilance equipment or heck fund some plan. If nothing is forth coming he can still cross the street and escalate his concerns to Yussuf or Baaba! Simply sitting twiddling thumbs and issuing statements is once again more baloney!

Ever listened to Ugandans pronouncing the word security? On serious note we are joking and I insist iteere is playing Russian roulette with our lives. He just needs to go to Uganda and learn a bit more. When you are under the attacks and threats like we are he has to use all tools at his disposal including psychological.

crap...not good,should we get used to this kindof things??