masukuma wrote:we love simplifying things sana - Ole Lenku is the problem, Kimaiyo is the problem e.t.c. we want to see heads rolling not 'fixes' to institutions. let me give you an analogy - the kenyan football team, we always complain... oh coach.. oh nyamwea oh...oh...oh... perhaps it's our players that stink!! perhaps it's our policemen and intelligence that stink! perhaps it's the crop from which we pick the coach, the police and the intelligence men from that stinks. we hire policemen who had low grades, put them up in deplorable conditions, give them training that may be suited for an 'armed force' i.e. confronting violent men who show up to beat people but cannot handle technology supported crime by younger and more agile minds. We need new wineskins for this new wine. old tricks wachia yule jamaa wa kiini macho.
I've said it here and I'll say it again,to expect a win against terror using the current court and judicial system is naive to say the least. The constitution is the problem, history is the problem, our politics fuel these problems courtesy of the first problem-constitution.
The NIS was nurtured and the spooks do not have executive mandate, they are mere cogs to relay info, no matter how urgent. The PORK cannot fire the IGP who has security of tenure. The issue of bonding terror suspects has been discussed before and I'll not belabour the same. Here is where the problem lies, we expect to achieve different result by fighting terrorism with kids cloves - courts. IMHO, these people should get more fire than they can unleash Michuki+Ali style in short extra judicial tactics, preemptive strikes and annihilation of enemy combatants is the only way out.
Disrupting the capacity of the shabaab, decimating their leadership and disrupting their organizational and logistical abilities will do so much more than arresting them and parading them before courts. This can be achieved with the current capacity of the various machinery, however why it doesn't happen is the best reason PORK should fire his top adivisors starting with ole Cook.
Why would known shabaab operatives be roaming freely in the streets and openly attending rallies? Ok they have "rights" rights to spread terror as guaranteed by the law. This is where the judicial alternative fails the system. Michuki realized this and simply did what was humanly practicable to arrest the Mungiki manace at a time when it seemed to get out off hand.