According to locals here the guns in the Coast are coming from Somalia. They are not legally acquired weapons. Internationally, most weapons used in crime are not legally acquired so having firearms laws doesn't help. Alex is right. The real cause is the poverty and the xtreme split between the rich and the poor. Crime has been on the rise in Kenya for the past few months and little is being done to stop it. Just look at the surge in kidnappings. Let me be honest, I didn't come to Kenya because it was a safe, fair, and equitable country. I came here because I saw a youth population in desperate need of solutions and I came to serve. My question now is this: if the insecurity gets so bad that those who dedicate themselves to helping are in danger who will come to help? Crystal On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Rad!<conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
what is the root problem of crime? crime is crime!
"Poverty is the worst form of violence"-- Gandhi
real "mungiki" read poverty real "PEV" (and supermarkets raid guys carrying fridges 2x their own weight:) read poverty real e-lists "negative energies" read poverty .... etc.
I diagnose what we are witnessing as "misdirected youthful energies"
Not good enough being a "problem announcer" be a "solution provider."
My Solution?
After the fibre cables, then flood the whole country with computers and FOSS. Youths will be so occupied installing software all over the place, cracking code, hacking (real meaning of it), earning income, solving needs, innovating, then exporting software. They'll have so much work to do, occupied interest or enough money they'd rather code than join the "chronic" criminal ones...
Hope I make some sense to at least one someone?
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