[kictanet] Incompetence gallore

Joe Murithi Njeru joe.njeru at zilojo.com
Wed Sep 25 16:15:15 EAT 2013


Hello James,

Importance is not only 'the lessons learnt'.... but that ACTION taken.

As Fred Kofman said...

"Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are 
left?

Five, because deciding is different than doing!

Decisions are worthless … unless you turn them into commitments.
"


On 09/25/2013 03:33 PM, James Mbugua wrote:
>
> Nairobi Homicides per 100,000 people = 4
>
> Memphis, Tennessee No.10 most dangerous US City Murders per 100,000 = 24.5
>
> Top 3 are Flint, Michigan (64.9 murders per 100,000 people), Detroit 
> 54.6/1000 and New Orleans, Louisiana 53.5.
>
> With 4 per 100,00, I would say Nairobi, although has work that needs 
> to be done, should be judged first and foremost on the nature of its 
> society and hence these comparative figures...Lack of the 911, police 
> equipment or vehicles, may not be the problem but the accomodating 
> nature of this society...After all, American cities with more than 
> enough emergency lines operators, vehicles and so on are suffering 
> crime rates beyond the realm of Nairobians' imagination (More than 10 
> times).
>
> We are not equipped for terrorist attacks that we have learnt just 
> like NYC learn with 9/11 where many firemen and policemen died rushing 
> into the towers to aid, the important thing is what lessons to draw 
> from here.
>
> Otherwise, for someone from say the US or UK which are highly 
> individualistic societies may find the lack of sufficient patrol cars 
> a problem but in a society where informal social support systems 
> pervade every level of society like Kenya's calling the neighbour to 
> help is usually enough.
>
> James
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Joe Murithi Njeru 
> <joe.njeru at zilojo.com <mailto:joe.njeru at zilojo.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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