Be as it may that orders have to be issued and followed by the police, how long will it take to get this right? This is not a movie in the making where you can 79 takes.....after Westgate, the forces should have gotten their acts together!

Interesting how the blame has now shifted to the police airwing guy and his daughters. Everyone seems to have forgotten that:

1. when the fleeing students arrived at the KDF barracks (next to the campus) at 6am and reported that they had been attacked, they were made to KNEEL for 1hr as the soldiers confirmed that the university had really been attacked.

2. Nkaiserry and IG of police flew to garissa in a police helicopter. What was difficult in them (immediately after arrival) sending the chopper to ruiru to pick recce? That helicopter was packed there at garissa the whole day.

3. The kdf soldiers were surrounding the campus for a whole 10hrs. Surely they should have stormed the place immediately after the attack occurred at 5.30am. The whole country shouldn't be waiting for recce to be ferried from ruiru whenever there is an attack.

4. The decision to send recce was made at 1pm. They were to use the cessna which was already parked at wilson airport. They were stuck in nbi traffic for 1hr, took another 1hr to get to garissa and another 1hr to be briefed, before storming the campus. Some recce officers went by road and actually arrived before the ones who flew to garissa.

I think that is a fallacy and it's a shame you are perpetuating that falsehood. However, if it is true, then we are in big trouble because it means that our army is incapable of, say, fighting a warlord in his palace because that would amount to Close Quarter Combat. In essence what you are saying is that if our army were to find themselves in such a situation outside our borders, they would ask RECCe for assistance. That's just insane. Even the army claimed that it was their Special Forces that had cornered the Garissa attackers. The question is, weren't the Army Special Forces able to neutralize the terrorist much faster considering the terrorist were being led by a guy who until about a year ago was probably spending sleepless nights at the UoN studying for a CAT while our Army guys were in their barracks practising combat maneuvers. How is it that Al Shabaab can turn a "softie" into Rambo in less than a year while our Army System cannot seem to do the same even when they have more time and better "raw material" to work with?

I think that is a fallacy and it's a shame you are perpetuating that falsehood. However, if it is true, then we are in big trouble because it means that our army is incapable of, say, fighting a warlord in his palace because that would amount to Close Quarter Combat. In essence what you are saying is that if our army were to find themselves in such a situation outside our borders, they would ask RECCe for assistance. That's just insane. Even the army claimed that it was their Special Forces that had cornered the Garissa attackers. The question is, weren't the Army Special Forces able to neutralize the terrorist much faster considering the terrorist were being led by a guy who until about a year ago was probably spending sleepless nights at the UoN studying for a CAT while our Army guys were in their barracks practising combat maneuvers. How is it that Al Shabaab can turn a "softie" into Rambo in less than a year while our Army System cannot seem to do the same even when they have more time and better "raw material" to work with?