[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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