[kictanet] Can technology solve terrorist problems in Kenya?

Tue Apr 15 15:14:43 EAT 2014

This entire re-registration issue is a little hazy - if the register we
have now is has inaccurate data, how will we ascertain who is or who isn't
a citizen? Are we then saying that we will give citizenship to anyone who
is a citizen? How will people prove citizenship? If we'll give citizenship
to anyone, what's the point of the audit?

Additionally, the problem is that immigration officials have repeatedly
poisoned the well - however, nobody has been fired, so what's to prevent
them from doing this again? In fact, what's to prevent them from viewing
this re-registration as a windfall that will allow even more illegal aliens
to be registered?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

> 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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