THE STATE OF INSECURITY

 ( NOTE: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN IN JULY 14TH, 2014)

INSECURITY: NEED A PROPER SOLUTION

File: people running for their dear lives. Insecurity in Kenya has risen in the past few years.

The insecurity situation in the coastal part of Kenya is exacerbating and the government is not doing anything plausible to contain it. It is sad to hear that terrorists have killed people, loot people's properties and vanished into the thick forest of Boni every day and the security personnel are not doing anything to gag them.
It is high time the government should stop shifting the blame to al-Shabaab terror group and the opposition for the current state of insecurity in the country. There is a serious security loophole  and the government should do something better to contain it.
It all started with a terrorist attack in Westgate Mall last year and the President himself said he would form a commission of inquiry to investigate what happened in Westgate, but the matter just rested that way after that aftermath. After every terror attack the government is always in the front line promising to deal with the situation, but all over sudden it forget the whole thing.
The attacks in Eastleigh, Likoni, Mpeketoni, Kigomba, Pangani, Lamu among many other places have happened concurrently but the government had not have a knack to even detect one before it happened. It is sad to note that some of these attacks happen just some metres away from police stations where our heavily armed policemen and women are.
The security docket in the country always take the lion share in annual budgetary allocation, but the so-called men in uniform and the forks in charge of this security docket, who are incompetent, just consume taxpayers money and they can't do anything to safe the lives of Kenyans.
From my point of view, I think reshuffle is the best way to go. If the government can look for better people to be in charge of security in the country, then it can be able to safe the lives of innocent Kenyans who are being slaughtered everyday by unknown assailants.
The al-Shabaab terror group has been a major stumbling block to security of Kenyans. Though the government is saying removing the KDF soldiers in Somalia is a cowardly act, I think removing them there may assist us to deal with the current insecurity situation in the country.
When the late Hon George Saitoti was the minister of internal security, he would be able to detect terror attacks before they were executed. My questions are, what is happening to Ole Lenku? Does he lack the security intelligent who can advise him?