The details on this are here
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/mpeketoni-Lamu-gunfire-al-shabaab-terrorism/-/1056/2349860/-/yf5qvgz/-/index.html

To put this into context, Mpeketoni is the largest town, bar Lamu, between the Somali Border and Malindi and the center of commercial activity in the region.

So, as much as a lot of us might not know it, the fact that Al-Shabbab could drive trucks full of fighters into such a town and commit these crimes and then leave should send all the security-bells that we have ringing.

This is exactly how Boko Haram started in Nigeria and we are seeing it played out here right infront of us.

I think its time that we spoke as the local ICT Community and came up with a stand on what in our opinion needs to be done in ICT Terms to secure this nation.

As an example, it would actually be very irresponsible of us to let a few gentlemen to come together and tell us the solution to our current security problems, from an ICT perspective, is a police network deal that largely puts CCTV Cameras in Nairobi & Mombasa, when maybe nothing is being spent to secure our porous borders as well as actual on-the-ground intelligence collection.

We could send this as a proposal to the powers that be as well as the parliamentary ICT Committee and hope, nay, push, until something gets done. The way I see this working is, we draft a document, brief and simple with what our recommendations are, then Listers can comment on it. If largely agreeable, we send it to the powers that be.

Let me now what your thoughts are, and we could see what we can do about this.

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