[kictanet] Incompetence gallore
Joe Murithi Njeru
joe.njeru at zilojo.com
Wed Sep 25 14:58:29 EAT 2013
Hello Adam,
I agree with you on all the points below.
The level of professionalism in certain parts of public sector is
diabolical.
When I was in Kigali some time back, a kid told his father - who had
just littered the street with a paper - that if he did not pick it up he
would report him to the police...
At iHub, I always pay City Council and ensure I get a receipt. Which I
promptly claim as a business expense.
That helps reduce the tax I pay Ceaser each year.
On 09/25/2013 11:03 AM, Adam Nelson wrote:
> I drove by a dead body this morning on the bypass between Wayaki way
> and Grevillea Grove. He was clearly beaten to death and been there
> for some time. We called an emergency line and ostensibly the police
> will come. On Ngong Rd across from Brew Bistro 2 weeks ago a boy was
> killed by a truck and his body lay on the side of the street for 2
> hours (Ngong Rd, one of the busiest in town) before anybody official
> arrived at the scene.
>
> How can it be expected that the Nairobi police handle one of the most
> complex hostage crises of the decade when they can't even respond to a
> dead body on the side of a major thoroughfare within 2 hours?
>
> I visited Kigali 3 weeks ago and what it made me realize is that it's
> not an 'African thing' or a 'Developing World thing' that Nairobi is a
> disaster. It's a total lack of excellence at every level of
> government. Kigali is better run in every respect than Nairobi and
> for the most part, it just comes down to better management.
>
> I'm not one for recriminations and at a time like this am mostly just
> sad. In the end, I'm an American and can't effect change here - it's
> up to Nairobians and Kenyans to say enough is enough and to demand
> that the public safety system be reformed.
>
> 1. A 911 (or 999) emergency call center
> 2. All police wearing ID numbers and equipped with a ticket book so
> they can write tickets
> 3. A new type of police with a different uniform that receive double
> pay but will be fired if found guilty of corruption
> 4. All police equipped with a mode of transportation (even just a
> mountain bike)
> 5. All police equipped with a radio
>
> Is this too much to ask of a city that bills itself as the capital of
> anything?
>
> -Adam
>
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> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com
> <mailto:dmbuvi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> A Standard article explains how disorderly and dangerous the
> operation was, Kenyans troops killed each other, and endangered
> the lives of hostages in a haphazard operation.
>
> The familiar shoot to kill order was given out http://t.co/M5tJ67KcPk
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: robert yawe <mailto:robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: 25/09/2013 08:29
> To: Dennis Kioko Mbuvi <mailto:dmbuvi at gmail.com>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] Incompetence gallore
>
> Editorial from a Saudi Paper
>
> *
>
>
> Something wrong in Kenya
>
> There can be no denying the extraordinary challenges
> facing the Kenyan government. Yet as the last
> terrorists were being rooted out of Nairobi's
> Westgate shopping mall at the end of a slaughter
> spree that has killed some 70 people and injured
> hundreds more, the Kenyan authorities need to be
> asking themselves some hard questions.
>
> This is a country which because it is actively
> involved in combating Al-Shabab terrorists in
> Somalia is supposed to be on the very highest state
> of alert. Kenya did not choose this confrontation.
> In 1998 it was an amiably corrupt and easygoing
> country with merely a nasty record of armed
> robberies, mostly of rich Western tourists.
>
> Then Al-Qaeda launched one of its very first
> international attacks, a deadly assault on the US
> embassy in the Kenyan capital which left 224 people
> dead the great majority of them Kenyans. Thereafter,
> there was a succession of small attacks by the
> Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab which culminated in raids
> on Kenyan coastal tourist resorts and a Somali
> refugee camp, targeting and kidnapping foreigners.
>
> It was the final straw. Nairobi sent troops into
> Somali striking Al-Shabab fighters in the rear as
> they were pressed from the north by African Union
> forces. Thereafter, the terrorists resorted to
> low-level violence, mostly hit and run grenade
> attacks across the Somali border, until the attack
> by some 15 heavily armed men on the supposedly
> well-guarded up-market Westgate shopping center. The
> attackers managed to negotiate their way with all
> their weaponry through the capital's roadblocks.
> They contrived to organize their deadly assault
> without the Kenyan intelligence services picking up
> the slightest inkling of what was about to happen.
>
> Something has got to be wrong somewhere. And the
> closer one looks at the way the tragic events
> unfolded, the more difficult questions it seems that
> the Kenyan authorities have to answer. Why for
> instance did it take almost half an hour for the
> first properly armed and equipped teams to arrive at
> the shopping mall? Why was there no proper building
> evacuation scheme nor any obvious plan to respond to
> a terrorist outrage within the complex?
>
> Acts of bravery by shopping center staff, individual
> police officers and ordinary members of the public
> cannot mask what appears to have been a series of
> bungles by all those who should have been
> responsible for the safety of the complex and its
> visitors. Journalists noted that when heavily-armed
> special forces arrived, some seemed nervous and
> confused, perhaps as a result of the shouting that
> could be heard from senior officers who themselves
> seemed poorly briefed and unprepared and as a result
> unsure of how best to proceed. The inevitable report
> into this horrific event may find that by delaying a
> rapid and firm response to the attack, the
> authorities permitted the terrorists to continue
> their killing spree and also allowed them to
> consolidate their position within the mall.
>
> Perhaps a clue to what went so disastrously wrong at
> the Westgate mall can be found in the devastating
> fire at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International
> Airport last month. Though the blaze broke out in
> the early morning, meaning no one was killed, the
> extent of the fire and the extraordinary delays in
> getting fire appliances to the scene raised major
> questions about the competence of the Kenyan
> authorities. The Westgate tragedy must compound
> these serious concerns.
>
>
>
>
>
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