limanika wrote:
And how come the western intelligence with skeleton presence is able to track these terrorists yet us we can't? What are these gadgets they have that we can't afford or can't buy / can't use with all our govt machinery. And we have to wait till 2017?
Other people take hard lessons from failure that leads to loss of lives -except Africans, of course. The mzungu in particular is adept at recognizing potential threats years in advance, keep the enemy permanentlt on radar, finger to the pulse. Policy thinkers in Europe and America realized Somalia would be a problem when Siad Barre's govt failed in 1991 and moved resources to have a handle on developing situations -ergo developing a network of informers and spies. Thats why China and South Korea can't allow North Korea to fail.
What did we do instead? We pretended the problem didn't exist, allowed illegals to cross to the cities in their millions, buying Kenyan documentation with as much ease as buying bread. And with them came a cancer that cannot now be excised. And then we were played another card by forces, who like I said, are much better at learning from past mistakes; We were co-opted to be the sharp end of an attrition war by a West that can no longer stomach putting their own troops on hostile ground. KDF in Somalia not withstanding, we have a police that is incompetent, and that is how actioanable intel goes through its one ear, and out the other. I mean allegations are made about somebody's qualifications having been manufactured in a backwater shop, we collectively think its hilarious.
These are the fruits of a long history of corruption, accepting and moving on, having mediocre leadership for years.
Ethiopia have troops in Amisom, isn't very sophisticated technology and intelligence wise -but they do not screw around. Try and step in there without proper papers and you will see what I mean. These terrorist vermin never dare export their stupid, diabolical shit up there. Their security apparatus works.
Nothing will work until the government guts itself from top to bottom, and removes from its ranks the accumulated filth. In China they execute people for corruption. We don't have to replicate the same here but the offense needs to be made to carry deadly serious consequences and legal institutions empowered to carry out those sentences. Don't think we shall see it in this generation. We are f**ked.