The big problem with some of our institutions is lack of competent staff. The police leads the way followed by the County of Nairobi. The problem can be seen by how they operate. The police bosses are paid to think strategically but do they have the capacity to do that? During the vetting one senior officer heading a very important docket could not understand what is a policy when asked what policy they use on their day today operations

The issue of corruption can not be erradicated because the bosses dont know how to go about it. I have the view that these bosses should be prosecuted for causing unnecessary deaths to junior officers and the public for their inaction or poor strategies employed in fighting crime.

The policy should be changed to allow outsiders to get into our enforcement agencies and do away with this issue of rising through the ranks to head these institutions.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 4:44 PM, Daudi Were <daudi.were@gmail.com> wrote:

Some observations:

The IEBC are now considered experts on registration - interesting!
There is already a technical team made up of the Ministries of Information, Communication and Technology and Interior and Coordination of National Government - that was quick!
The government has their key messaging co-ordinated on this. Check out the quotes from two Cabinet Secretaries:

“This is your know-your-citizen campaign that will help us develop a reliable master database that will help us in national planning and security,” - Matiang’i
“We must know who is a Kenyan and who is not. We can only do this from a credible digital database,” - ole Lenku

This suggests that messaging is being very controlled centrally and all talking points comes from the same source. Expect to hear more about knowing each other and the databases that will help us do that from other Cabinet Secretaries in the next few weeks.

On 14 April 2014 22:22, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:

Government to register all Kenyans afresh in digital database
http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html

I've always wondered why it's virtually impossible to get UK or US
citizenship through the back door, unless you get into a phony
marriage with a delinquent from those countries. Will setting up a
biometric database prevent rogue employees at the department of
registration from getting bribes to register foreigners as Kenyan
citizens? As far as I can remember, when I applied for the kipande,
all my 10 digits' prints were taken.

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