[kictanet] Can technology solve terrorist problems in Kenya?

[Andrea Bohnstedt]

The police are, reliably, year after year, voted 'Most corrupt institution'
in the country. I am sure there are a few good apples among them, but
claiming anything else would just be empirically incorrect.


On 15 April 2014 14:00, Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Brian
>
> Be offended all you want. The fact of the matter is there is corruption at
> both immigration and the police.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Conrad,
>>
>> I find it really offensive that you would paint every single police and
>> immigration officer as corrupt. I am sure that in our case (as in any other
>> country) it's a few bad apples. There are many men and women who faithfully
>> serve this country every day and are not what you describe.....
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Given it will be the same corrupt police and immigration officers
>>> running this exercise, what will be the point?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva <
>>> Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Government to register all Kenyans afresh in digital database
>>>>
>>>> http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html
>>>>
>>>> I've always wondered why it's virtually impossible to get UK or US
>>>> citizenship through the back door, unless you get into a phony
>>>> marriage with a delinquent from those countries. Will setting up a
>>>> biometric database prevent rogue employees at the department of
>>>> registration from getting bribes to register foreigners as Kenyan
>>>> citizens? As far as I can remember, when I applied for the kipande,
>>>> all my 10 digits' prints were taken.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ______________________
>>>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>>>> twitter.com/lordmwesh
>>>>
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