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<font color="#000000">Hello James,<br>
<br>
Importance is not only 'the lessons learnt'.... but that ACTION
taken.<br>
<br>
As Fred Kofman said...<br>
<br>
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class="userContent">"Five
frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many
are left? <br>
<br>
Five, because deciding is different than doing!<br>
<br>
Decisions are worthless … unless you turn them into commitments.<br>
"</span></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/25/2013 03:33 PM, James Mbugua
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAAp8a6xY08M3sPLdkdHq=q-YC3-05xks=E3eKOjRqOw9uSfwNQ@mail.gmail.com"
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<div>Nairobi Homicides per 100,000 people = 4</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Memphis, Tennessee No.10 most dangerous US City Murders per
100,000 = 24.5</div>
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<div>Top 3 are Flint, Michigan (64.9 murders per 100,000
people), Detroit 54.6/1000 and New Orleans, Louisiana 53.5.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>James</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Joe
Murithi Njeru <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:joe.njeru@zilojo.com" target="_blank">joe.njeru@zilojo.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font
color="#000000">Hello Adam,<br>
<br>
I agree with you on all the points below. <br>
<br>
The level of professionalism in certain parts of public
sector is diabolical. <br>
<br>
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...<br>
<br>
At iHub, I always pay City Council and ensure I get a
receipt. Which I promptly claim as a business expense. <br>
<br>
That helps reduce the tax I pay Ceaser each year.<br>
<br>
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<div><font color="#000000">On 09/25/2013 11:03 AM,
Adam Nelson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">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.</font>
<div> <font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">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?</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">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.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">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.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">1. A 911 (or 999)
emergency call center</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">2. All police wearing
ID numbers and equipped with a ticket book so
they can write tickets</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">3. A new type of police
with a different uniform that receive double
pay but will be fired if found guilty of
corruption</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">4. All police equipped
with a mode of transportation (even just a
mountain bike)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">5. All police equipped
with a radio</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Is this too much to ask
of a city that bills itself as the capital of
anything?</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">-Adam</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000">On
Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Dennis Kioko <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif"><font
color="#000000">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. <br>
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The familiar shoot to kill order was
given out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif;FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:
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<div><span> <font
size="4">Something
wrong in Kenya
<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.</font></span></div>
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