Kratos wrote:@ Washiku, while i don't dispute all what you're saying my point is that all those points DO NOT eradicate terrorism. You have just expressed your expectations and not given solutions. Again i ask, how will changing the security team, holding demos etc help in eradicating terrorism? IT WILL NOT! So long as the they live among us and we will not sacrifice them for the good of all.
Your points are about "I have done my bit as Washiku" what am saying is that there are many other Washiku's who are shielding this idiots.
Terrorism is not a conventional crime/war and you will never be free from it even though you have paid taxes and what not. How are other countries fighting this animal? By firing people and holding demos about insecurity? Not at all. By exposing their own brothers and sisters who are part of the problem. In fact i believe that al shabab would not have gained much traction in Kenya had there not been collaborators and sympathizers. Not to say that our systems have helped though.
Kratos I like you already, coz you are already asking questions. At least we can discuss.
1. Firing people? YES. It works. The next person knows that they have to work to keep their job.
2. How do you convince people to share info? By being wise. Get a thief to catch a thief. Entrench his people so so deep into the system that he will know what is happening in every corner of this country.
3. Let our system be more preventive than reactive. How? Ruto told us that a few minutes after the attack, the kebabs were followed to their hide-outs and killed. Then only explanation could be that the KDF guys knew those camps exist. How could they have all of a sudden realised them in a few minutes? Instead of using helicopters to ferry politicians to rallies, those things should be used all the time to do air surveillance of our borders. Such camps should have been bombed the day they were being made.
By the way it is not so hard, if given to the right people. 99% are law abiding Kenyans. 1% can not be too hard to handle.
Its because of that 1% that the police, judiciary, NIS and such others exist. Let them do their job.
My friend who we were in campus together, who chose to serve us through the security apparatus works in those volatile areas. He tells me of tales of the little resources they have to work. Yet every time during Mashujaa celebration the army does drills to show us the machinery we have in store to protect us. Must we wait until Uganda attacks us to use them?