FRM2011 wrote:Borrowed from Kipruto keritony's FB page.
"Having given us Al Shabaab, Uncle Sam is doing brisk business with us. Rifles, tractor birds, ordnance- American companies are moving military hardware this way. The latest, a shs 25 billion chopper and bombs deal, happens while we don't know yet the fate of the 40 billion tractor rip-off.
Just who are we in an arms race with? Al Shabaab? Military might is not exactly the sharpest tool against that shadow. So who? The Migingo takeover? Pah! It can't be Pokot herdsmen either, can it?
Who? Who is threatening to thwuck us about the ears? Sudan? Ethiopia? TZ, UG... India? Who?
Not a single promising enemy in sight. Quite disappointing, don't you think?
But wait a moment! There is an enemy; there are enemies: Bad Unreliable Weather. Disease. Drugs and Medical Equipment Shortage or Absence. Inflation. Bad Roads. Hunger. Graft...
Those and many more. We are beset by enemies, I now see.
And we are going to blast them into 1960 with our shiny not-too-old American Weapons of Wise Destruction."
Misinformed and ignorant reasoning.
The security forces are in the middle of a modernisation drive.
The security services (KDF+NPS,etc) have for long have been denied new equipment,and everyone including the cat down the street knows our F-5 jets (for instance) are old things that Kenyatta senior bought when Kenyatta junior was a teenager.Ditto some of the armoured scout cars.
Does Kipruto know how many Kenyan cops have been killed by IEDs? Ask him to google Kenyan police killed by IEDs.This problem is solved by APCs as a short term measure, and over the long term the issues that cause the insecurity. Try telling the families of such cops that we are not in an arms race..
Main thing is to ensure we get value for our money - if some of these equipment was in place many of our troops killed in action in Somalia esp at El Adde and Kulbilow would be alive today.