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Post by Onyango Oloo on Nov 22, 2014 11:52:10 GMT 3
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Post by podp on Nov 22, 2014 15:20:57 GMT 3
the article by the S. African www.issafrica.org/uploads/Paper265.pdfmake very good reading and it is a pity we have no political will.Sample this sense of alienation and corresponding commitment to their organizations. None of the respondents referred to other Kenyan nationals as being part of ‘us’. Naturally, if there is an ‘us’ there must be a ‘them’ (i.e. opponents):52% of mrC and 30% of al-shabaab respondents referred to the Kenyan government as ‘them’, while 5% of additional mrC respondents referred to a combination of the government and other ethnic groups. In the case of al-shabaab, religion also played an important role in both defining both ‘us’ and ‘them’... since independence the reality experienced at the grassroots level in Kenya was that ethnic allegiances are a real factor in access to and the distribution of resources. (C leys, cited in p mawhood and m Wallis, ethnic minorities in eastern africa: Kenya and tanzania, Regional Politics and Policy 3(1) (1993), 172) referred to the ‘ideology of tribalism’ to describe what he saw as a conspiracy by the Kenyan political leadership to manipulate ethnic identity to achieve its own goals. now we wake up to another attack on Kenyans in a bus in Mandera county www.nation.co.ke/counties/28-dead-suspected-Al-Shabaab-attack-in-Mandera/-/1107872/2531256/-/ljsywl/-/index.htmlIt is unfortunate that this is how we lose the plot. This has nothing to do with religion. It is about incompetence, it's about a poor security system, it's about an obsession with selfies and PR rather than an obsession with creative solutions to our problems. Let us be bold and honest to know the real issues, the real problem. To make it an islam vs christianity argument makes is possible for those responsible for these lapses to continue being in charge of our security even when it is clear they have failed. Missing the point makes it easy to blame ghosts, networks, foreign influence and the devil for this problem. Let us be honest even if it will embarrass "mtu wetu". the issa article concludes...Of even more concern are claims of extrajudicial killings of ‘problematic’ individuals, most notably radical muslim scholars. the reality is, however, that the ‘elimination’ or assassination of such leaders or scholars has radicalised and recruited dozens, if not hundreds, to the ranks of extremist organisations, ensuring a new wave of radicalism and collective resolve among their members, ultimately indicating that threats of violence or imprisonment are rarely effective deterrents. an effective counterterrorism policy and strategy should appreciate the broader context in which violent actions or attacks occur and seek to meaningfully and non-violently attend to the problems thrown up by this context. It is apparent that Kenyans are extremely divided. While diversity can be celebrated when mutual respect exists, it can also destroy a country from within when there is no trust with reference to both religious and ethnic differences, as described by al-shabaab and mrC respondents. the greatest threat to stability in Kenya will be if extremists succeed in dividing the country between muslims and non- muslims or between the coastal people and those in Nairobi. addressing and breaking these perceptions extend well beyond the responsibility of the police – the process requires the entire Kenyan government to initiate dedicated strategies to build national identity in a country that is religiously and ethnically divided. as long as Kenyan citizens, especially those on the fringes of society, exclusively identify with an ethnic or religious identity that is perceived to be under threat, radicalisation will continue to increase. |
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 22, 2014 22:33:58 GMT 3
An excellent piece. The real question that then follows is whether anyone wants to learn anything. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 19, 2017 21:41:53 GMT 3
MPEKETONI, LAMU, BONI FOREST, COAST POLITICSWhat am I missing in the jigsaw!? where does al-shabab fit in? Yesterday, in the usual, ritual campaign stupidities come to town, Jubilee candidate Uhuru Kenyatta, also the sometimes Commander in Chief and acting CEO of Kenya, read an edict worthy of a Roman Emperor: a cynical guy giving the mob what excites it most: blood-letting at no political cost! KILL THEM BURN THEM AND BURY THEM!Who was he talking about, pray tell!? He was talking about Al-Shabaab terrorists. And who is to burn them to easien their way into hell!? The Kenyan security forces I presume. But are not these the forces which have been doing LINDA NCHI over there for close to half a decade since the kidnapping of that aging Muzungu!? Or is Somalia like the Congo where many a foreign army simply melted into business men of various shades, even pimps for paedophiles? And I dare say armies from corrupt countries led by corrupt politicians and generals, melt even faster. It is therefore thinkable, that such Al-Shabaab outrages like the wipe out of El-Adde KD garrison had more to do with local business squabbles than whatever other reasons are politically safe to offer. And a detail Al-Shabaab kidnaps a dispenser of TITLE-DEEDS in Kenya, in Lamu, her birthplace!? This could be a purely local story. But I can't figure it out. -what is it with LAMU? Is this the wider area of the MPEKETONI MASSACRE, when Al-Shabaab militants massacred more than 60 people in June 2014? There followed a public inquiry, but even then, folks seemed only to speak in codes. www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/11/10/where-were-police-during-mpeketoni-attacks-lamu-residents-ask_c1453579 LAND OWNERSHP? A clue there: LAND! That last line could as well come from WHITE FARMER IN LAIKIPIA! A conflict of economic modes. But there is also NELSON MARWA Is he a liar? Just another Duale-like big mouth in headless talk, supplying the National Intelligence Council and the President with false intelligence so, for instance the last time around, Uhuru Kenyatta all but physically fingered Raila Odinga as the key instigator! BUT, if Marwa is not just scandalising conform dirty electioneering, WHAT IS THE MOTIVE OF THESE POLITICIANS? (''so that 'LOCALS' don't vote'' seems coded lingo to me!) I suspect somewhere there is an unpublicised narrative of a settler versus native land conflict which is not mediated by willing buyer willing seller, nor cured by the issuance of title-deeds with no reference to historical injustice. Land is like an iceberg in Kenya, the real load or import is below the surface. And yet in this Kenyan narrative Al-Shabaab is the major bogeyman. It doesn't fit right. Something I aint seeing. Jukwaa has been a light in this crisis though. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9220/lessons-mpeketoni demokrasia-kenya.blogspot.nl/2014/06/oloo-not-surprised-by-mpeketoni-tragedy.html jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9070/oloo-surprised-mpeketoni-tragedy jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9094/sarah-elderkin-on-mpeketoni nipate.com/viewtopic.php?t=41874 jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9239/new-dawn-on-kenyan-horizon
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