True they were never colonies of Britain but they've to greater degree been facing West before they turned to East. Meles was a darling to the West. Angola has Portugal yet they are not crying sabotage because they have since put some order in their houses.

There are no blasts every now and then in Addis even though Ethiopia shares a border with Somali which is three times that of Kenya.

In Kenya if you want cheap imports,one uses the Somalis. We've made them lords and lording over usthey will do. How do all those explosives get in? BRITAIN?

@murchir Are you saying Britain should let its citizen get bombed in a country where human life is not valued? For what? And thats after the First man said categorically,we don't need the west.

Its high time we became ethical. We scratch their back,they scratch ours.

Hii mambo ya pissing on people backs and expecting them to scratch ours ni UJINGA!

What worries me most about these current situation is the undying need for this gov't to be a step behind in terms of policy.

We warned on corruption leading to terrorism, which leads to killing of tourism.

Now they are busy talking about the Brits and economic sabotage. Last week they were saying raira, the week before that they said al-shabab.

They are still busy looking for the person to blame for their ineptitude.

They are forgetting that the death of tourism in 2014 is a done deal. That horse ain't coming back to the barn.

The next problem is the biggest problem. Jobs

They aren't talking about that at all. Jobs are going to be lost. Very many jobs.

What is the gov't doing right now to stop the mess that is coming of job losses across ALL sectors in the economy?

Or are they planning on sending murchr and co to wazua to tell us that the Chinese are taking our jobs? And creating another thread about Americans spying on Shina. Kweli now the job description for Jubilee is to fight Shina vs USA battles on wazua?

This will be a gov't that came in with a promise of more jobs and probably lord over the worst jobs calamity in recent times.

@murchr, I believe they have their priorities right, PREVENTING rather than CURING. Waiting for attacks to happen then evacuate is knee-jerk reaction, an area we Kenyans specialize on. Somebody has to die for us to believe the seriousness of a threat. Otherwise it wasn't.
We don't see far.

We should start seeing far. We need to start being patriotic.

Before Angola became "rich" to bail out Portugal, they were poor. They didn't try pissing every nation out there.

The fact that Ethiopia didn't get colonized and the way they "protect" their statehood/nationhood tells you their character.
How about back here in the farm? Man is busy eating man.

We are poor and the "friend" you are talking about, we are ever pissing them and telling them we don't need them. How then do we expect them to treat us as friends.
The culture of IMPUNITY is so entrenched in us such that we believe we can piss nations of, and have them back at our beckon.

On a personal level, things don't work that way. On a national level it won't work.

Aside the back and forth,we Kenyans need to be patriotic and put nation first.
Secondly, we need to be ethical, not-so-uncouth as we are used. Within our borders and without.

We also need to stop having this sense of invincibility and indispensability. No nation is invincible, no nation is indispensable.

We live in a community of nations. We need to treat them with respect and decorum for them to reciprocate.

Good begets good. Rot begets rot. And rotting we are!

Also look for a copy of this book to see how economic sabotage is done in other parts of the world.

Guys, we can argue all we want but the truth is the tourists are gone. What are we going to do about it? Argue on who is at fault and who did what?

There is a very high risk of terrorism right now. Has all this arguing and blaming the British solved it?

People have lost jobs. What is this government doing to solved this?

I just wish we and this government that we chose will realize that we are facing a huge problem because of our corruption and our lack of seriousness in the way we are approaching issues and this has led to all this insecurity.

We are the ones who are hurting. It is not the British nor the Chinese. Right now they are asleep overseas and we are here arguing.