<p>Adam,</p>
<p>Well noted.</p>
<p>In Kenya we buy (bribe for) contracts/employment in government (including the police and military) as we also do in the private sector.</p>
<p>If your career begins with your family bribing to get you inside, it is likely to continue with you becoming a major bribe collector. </p>
<p>Possibly, public officials privately collect almost as much money for themselves, as they collect for the state through legal/constitutional channels.</p>
<p>We in the private sector are as guilty as they are in practicing corruption, in corrupting public officials. The end result is we best "perform" for kickbacks not ethics.</p>
<p>Sadly.<br><br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 25, 2013 11:04 AM, "Adam Nelson" <<a href="mailto:adam@varud.com">adam@varud.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. A 911 (or 999) emergency call center</div><div>2. All police wearing ID numbers and equipped with a ticket book so they can write tickets</div><div>3. A new type of police with a different uniform that receive double pay but will be fired if found guilty of corruption</div>
<div>4. All police equipped with a mode of transportation (even just a mountain bike)</div><div>5. All police equipped with a radio</div><div><br></div><div>Is this too much to ask of a city that bills itself as the capital of anything?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Adam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: <a href="http://kili.io" target="_blank">kili.io</a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Musings:<a href="https://twitter.com/varud" target="_blank"> twitter.com/varud</a></span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Dennis Kioko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif">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>
<br>The familiar shoot to kill order was given out <a href="http://t.co/M5tJ67KcPk" target="_blank">http://t.co/M5tJ67KcPk</a><br><br>Sent from my Windows Phone</div></div>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif;FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robert yawe</a></span><br>
<span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif;FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif">25/09/2013 08:29</span><br>
<span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif;FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" target="_blank">Dennis Kioko Mbuvi</a></span><br>
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<div><div><div><h5><span><div><span> <font size="4">Something wrong in Kenya <br>
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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></span></h5><div><div><div><form rel="async" method="post" action="http://ajax/ufi/modify.php" target="_blank" onsubmit="return window.confirm("You are submitting information to an external page.\nAre you sure?");">
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