TERROR ATTACKS: NO LONGER NEWS

File: people carrying the victims of terror attack. Insecurity in Kenya has become an order of the day.

 ( NOTE: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN IN 21ST JULY, 2014)

TERROR ATTACKS: NO LONGER NEWS

Attacks in Kenya are no longer news since we expect them in the news headline every morning.The first terror attack in Kenya started in 1998 when Al Qaeda terror group attacked United States Embassy which was then situated along Haile Selassie Avenue in Nairobi where over 200 people died and hundred others seriously injured. Since then, there have been several terror attacks in the country.
The government of Kenya has been pointing fingers to Somalia-based Al Shabaab terror group who in several instances has been claiming to be perpetuating these aftermaths.
Though terrorists have been targeting Kenya over the last one and a half decades, it is important to note that there were no much terror attacks which happened one after the other during Kibaki's regime.This has raised serious questions to the government of the day which is still in its infancy stage. It is hardly two years since Jubilee Government came to power and within this period, more than a dozen terror attacks have been undertaken around the country mostly in Nairobi, Mombasa and Lamu counties.
The infamous Westgate and Mpeketoni attacks which left over 150 innocent people dead, have made people lack confidence in the forks heading security docket in the country with some suggesting Interior Cabinet Secretary, Joseph Ole Lenku, be sacked to pave way for another "competent" person to be in charge of that docket.
The recent several attacks in Lamu county have left thousands of people leave their homes with some going to spend their nights in prison.
The government interdicted high rank security personnel in Lamu county after Mpeketoni aftermath, but they were later own reported to have been allowed to work in other counties. To make the matter dramatizing, they were interdicted and there was no case opened against them. Lamu Governor is also currently facing charges related to the killings in Mpeketoni and the killings have not stopped since the day he was arrested and later on released on a cash bail pending investigation. In fact the investigators, the police, have admitted that the case is too complicate since they can't find any tangible evidence which can allow to propel the investigation. They recently asked the High Court to give them 60 days which the High Court denied.
The government deployed thousands of police officers to guard Saba Saba rally which Cord leaders held in Uhuru Park on July 7th and my question is why is it not deploying enough number of police officers to guard the Lamu residents?
The government has been shifting the blame to opposition party leaders who have been playing politics around insecurity matters in the country even after al-Shabaab insurgents claimed the responsibility. It may not been really good for the opposition to play politics around the state of insecurity, but the matter is irrevocable especially in a scenario where many people are being killed every day. If opposition leaders decide to leave the insecurity matter in their public rallies, then they have nothing else plausible to tell Kenyans.
From my point of view I think the terrorists have resort to move to Mombasa county after Inspector General issued a duck-to-dawn curfew  in Lamu county on Friday. The government should be vigilant in security matters since terrorists can attack anywhere else in Kenya.