Monday, February 1, 2010

Are Kenyans realy Secure???

I wrote about this post some time back before events had gotten murkier with regards to our security. When we have unscrupulous business men selling arms to crooks that use them to kill to unsuspecting,innocent Kenyans,how can the government assure us that we are safe when clearly it is not doing enough to stem small weapons trade? Today,Mon 1st Feb,a cache of weapons has been found in Narok courtesy of the same business man who had a similar cache to his name in Eastleigh. Many Kenyans have lost a brother,a sister,an aunt at the expense of this weapons that land in the hands of trigger happy rogues. Can we have tough measures and stiffer control on arms trade? Yes,I believe we can for if the arms are brought to kenya via the porous border between Kenya and Somali,we surely can find ways to monitor our borders better. We can not continue to play blind when such dangerous and super weapons as the M15 land in the wrong hands. Can the government deal with the source of the problem? Arresting a few foreign Nationals in a swoop and going mum over the whole thing is not going to help anybody,not the government and definitely not Kenyans. While our leaders may live in posh suburbs with round the clock security and thus a minimized threat of exposure to the thugs who use such weaponry,believe it or not some Kenyans live in places where the weaponry is a part of life. Death peeps from all corners and security is just another funny word to them.

2 comments:

  1. When a person can sell weapons to and the government not know about it till this late,we have a problem. Though the police action was timely,more needs to be done. We can avoid unnecessary deaths caused by trigger happy young,frustrated youths if only we control arms flow in the country and find ways to engage our youths in meaningful money making ventures.

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  2. So it appears even as we ponder over the recent cache find and its implications,already there is suspicion some high profile officials were involved in the arms saga. Surely there is more than meets the eye in this saga. Hope the police do their investigations and come up with something tangible. They have a way of doing investigations that are never conclusive.

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