If the political class was SERIOUSLY interested in getting the Kenyans in the villages, Estates, Slums streets etc to actively participate in the fight against terrorism, that goal would be achieved pronto.
But are they SERIOUSLY interested!!
The general public can not just organise themselves. More over this arrangements needs the right environment.
In US, UK Israel etc, the citizens there are not so organised out of the blues. The right conditions are created by the political leadership, not by accident but by design.
In our situation our leadership take advantage of society's relative ignorance to feed us bull crap as they engage in debilitating corruption and other forms of exploitation to a nascent and poor economy.
We all know that the average Kenyan does not trust the security personnel enough to pass any sensitive information about criminals, corruption, drug lords etc.
Of course this mistrust is not misplaced.
That aside any Government saying that it is unable to deal with a security issue in the magnitude of what we are currently dealing with in Kenya, then that Govt ought to declare itself incompetent and do the next logical thing under the circumstances.
Or else are we to resort to hopelessness or perhaps some divine intervention!
Just as absolute power corrupts leaders, so does absolute fanaticism blind the people from logic