You also have to note that these things were also supplied to the UN they are the ones who discovered that they never detected anything, hence the court case. If the Kenya police bought after recommendations from UN then I would cut them a slack ... the issue of them now saying they are serviceable and hence usable is a new story altogether, maybe someone in the force actually made them work ... wouldn't that be great ... :-) 


On 28 April 2013 12:14, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
@Alex, @Dennis,

That's a very shortsighted argument/justification and is hard to
believe coming from you.
There are so many graduates in the Police Force, besides some very
bright minds who, despite having reached only Kenya Junior or KCE or
KCSE, are very well informed, even more than most graduates. Being a
graduate in Kenya (and even recently in the US) have been discovered
to be nothing more than "mwakenya", so you guys are not going to
convince me that the solutions to the improvements required in the
Police Force will be the employment of graduates into their ranks.
Let me dwell on the main issue though - procurement of fake equipment.
You all will agree with me that in procurement, be it public or
security(military, etc) there are always vested interests angling for
what they see as the low-hanging fruit (for lack of a better word to
describe that) and who are the ones who end up deciding how the
tenders are won. I can tell you that this happens more outside the
institutions of security than inside. Only a few "inside"
collaborators do end up knowing what is going on in the procurement
process. When the Police Force buys such a large arsenal of equipment,
nothing stops these merchants of deceit from supplying a few genuine
test units and containers of fake! You guys know how it goes.... Let's
not blame the fiasco on education standards within the ranks. It's
just to far from it.


On 28 April 2013 11:59, Alex Ngatia <alex.ngatia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dennis those are my sentiments exactly. That's why I stopped expecting any
> improvement in the police force until they up their standards
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Remember policebrecruitment is pegged on scoring "D and above“ in National
>> secondary examinations and your ability to outrun those who turn up for the
>> mass recruitment.
>>
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