The president should resign, he chairs the National Security Council and the whole security apparatus has failed!!!

Our Father in Heaven please protect us and help out of this situation.

Boss, tyranny will not allow. Madeemoni pia. He should stop trying to be popular and grow some steel. These guys are attacking his underbelly, making mockery of our sovereignty. As president, you just don't quit. You change to plan B, a less-popular but much more effective approach.

SOURCE: Wikipedia
‘If they have no bread, let them eat cake’!

Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution

Often attributed to Marie Antoinette, this phrase was in fact never uttered by her. However, it has come to symbolize the obliviousness of Marie Antoinette and the aristocratic elite of the ancien régime in general towards the social problems of the time.

Now that she had produced offspring Marie Antoinette was freed of a heavy burden. She began to escape the sterile ceremony of court life, where she was not allowed the least privacy. Her private retreat was the Petit Trianon, an elegant little château in the park at Versailles, where she surrounded herself with an exclusive company of confidantes. The traditional elites at court and even the king himself were only allowed to enter by express permission of the queen. The queen’s eccentric lifestyle came to be symbolized by the hameau de la reine, an artificially built hamlet of peasants’ cottages. Marie Antoinette created a bucolic fantasy world in which an artificial village idyll was to provide relief from the stiff formality of court life. This quest for a life lived closer to nature was in keeping with contemporary currents that marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.
It was at this time that Marie Antoinette made the acquaintance of the Swedish aristocrat Axel von Fersen. The exact nature of their relatio
nship has still not been clarified but the possibility of a love affair cannot be excluded.
By absenting herself from court she affronted influential circles in court society. She was accused of neglecting her duties as queen, wife and mother, accusations which were then broadcast further afield by her numerous enemies. This increasingly open criticism of the queen was give additional fuel by the tense economic situation, as France was donating huge sums in support of the American War of Independence against Britain. However, the people saw the extravagance of the queen as the reason for their plight. The derisive nickname of ‘Madame Deficit’ for Marie Antoinette began to make the rounds. Hatred of the queen intensified as a result of the flood of lampoons and satirical handbills full of mostly obscene calumnies directed against the frivolous lifestyle of the extravagant company at the Petit Trianon. The queen was accused of sexual excesses, while the king was portrayed as incapable.
Marie Antoinette ignored the growing hatred and failed to realize the true import of the polemical attacks on her person. Things reached their lowest point when the so-called Necklace Affair became public. This involved an extremely valuable diamond necklace that disappeared without her knowledge after her name had been forged on certain documents. Although the queen’s innocence was proved, the affair discredited the monarchy and led to a huge loss of popularity. The fact that she could even have been believed capable of having had a part in the affair shows how low Marie Antoinette’s reputation had sunk.
Only now did she realize the seriousness of the situation, but attempts to rebut the criticism were in vain. The political and economic situation of the kingdom was approaching a critical state and Louis was hopelessly out of his depth. Marie Antoinette now became active, taking part in the sessions of the royal council and modelling herself on Maria Theresa as ‘mother of her country’. However, she lacked any political instinct. Inexperienced and naive, she exacerbated the situation with her interventions.
In 1789 pressure for reform led to the convocation of the Estates-General: the representatives of the nobility, Church and the Third Estate (the urban, property-owning bourgeoisie) from all parts of the kingdom assembled in a kind of parliament. Demands for a constitution that would curtail the absolute power of the monarch became ever louder. While Louis reacted with indecision, Marie Antoinette took the initiative. She urged a military solution; troops loyal to the king were to dissolve the assembly of the Estates. This active intervention made her the mouthpiece of royal power. Having been hitherto vilified solely as an immoral creature of luxury, Marie Antoinette now became a general focus of loathing for the revolutionary forces, the embodiment of a hafott, Stuttgart 2004

Wapi links?

I can see them hapo chini reading but not commenting on this thread just yet and then later in the day they will come with all manner of masomo and theories.

They were sleeping. They are quarry workers.

We should avoid turning this into an us-against-them issue. At times we shouldn't let national issues be swayed by political goggles.

On matters security the worst thing one can do is create politics.

That's what this gov't has been doing since Lamu. Politics politics politics.

last week the CS went to Mandera and told people who were fearing for their lives to go back to work because they are safe. Then you wake up in the morning and hear in the same area 36 people were killed and 2 beheaded.

In the meantime, we don't hear from the President on this issue neither Ole Nenku. That job is left to the security expert himself, Dennis Itumbi. Yaani state house can issue statements about political parties. He also goes on TV to debate security issues on behalf of the president.

This has to stop.

We want security, not Press Statements with Hashtags. How does someone who's in gov't participate in such black hat internet marketing techniques as creating fake twitter accounts to push an agenda. Yaani, how does that happen?

Instead of offering security, create hashtags and fake accounts. Some even on wazua. Itumbi, no more statements. Give Kenyans a sense of security. Tired of your games to be honest. They are so 1999.

I fully agree @alma.