lest you forget wanugu and wacucu were very good people in their village. They helped very many people actually more than the ones saved by the Lootenants.

A thief is a thief. You can try call them something else but they were STEALING while families were GRIEVING.

STEALING a packet of cigarettes carries the same sentence as STEALING a bulldozer.

If you try and sugarcoat what these looters did, you will lose that war to Al-Shabab. Tell us who stole, take them to court and lets us see them in jail.

I want you to tell the families of those who died with a straight face that

"don't worry madam, we were stealing for the sake of national security. Those 3 days we were lying that there were hostages were just to make you feel better. By the way, we killed all of those people, but they burned with the mattresses."

No my friend. Now you're thinking like a kdf looter.

We expected them to respect Kenyans. Those alive and those who passed.
We expected them to show the world that Kenyans are good people with good morals.
We expected them to behave at level better than those that sought to terrorize this nation.
We expected them to tell kenyans the truth not treat us to fake rambo movies.
We expected them to behave like officers and gentlemen.

Instead they behaved like LOOTERS.

Only fit to attend Gor Mahia hooligan meetings.

@jag
Am not beating them...may b i am. But am Thinking in this line . Reccee guys could have done it by end of day sato.

I can see the Methodology of the commander of the KDF guys at westigate as follows

1. Commander-Entry into the building, already totally secured by Reccee (boring..wat to do..)..next
2. Commander says Lets do a stock take--YES
3. Stock take complete-wow.. bored armed guys...what to do now?
4. commander :How many are We?..200
5. commander :How many days will 200 trained men take to finish this Stock-.... 200 hands-up..me sir... me sir... 3 days sir
6. Commander: You have three days!!1
7. Shouts of joy: Hurray!!!!!
8: Commander: Remember to bring down the evidence after...
9. Commander: .....oh the cameras outside...... some of you please do some rounds around the building.

<ka..booom>

@jaggernaut, no amount of PR spin will change what Kenyans now think of the military. Here are the facts:

The soldiers messed up the whole operation. They killed a GSU man whose job was to fight the terrorists.

They led us to think that they were fighting 10-15 assailants when in reality there were only four of them.

To rub salt onto the wound, for the three or so days after Saturday, the army men were stealing from the scene of a horrific attack. The CCTV video clearly shows that. As in stealing like common criminals: packing stuff into paperbags and bowing their heads as they ran out of Nakumatt.

They lied about 'repartriating' KES 300M. They lied to the commander in chief as well, without batting an eyelid.

They showed a huge amount of disrespect for the dead by blowing up the place to cover their evil deeds.

In short, the military betrayed our trust. For a long time we have held them in high regard for their professionalism. Not anymore.

is @jagger a lootenant?