Thanks for your analytic response, I partly agree and partly disagree with you. As a country Kenya has a budget, where different ministries/departments are allocated a sizable amount of money depending on its needs and Budget. Every ministry from education, Agriculture, special program to defense have a budget in which they are supposed to spend. so to me when you say that we shouldn't buy modern arsenal so that we divert the fund to education (Which got the biggest chunk -133 Billion, in the 2009-2010 budget FYI), I think you are missing the point.
With a defense budget of 44 Billion, why shouldnt they arm the 30 000 men with modern weaponry? The ministry of Agriculture was given 11.7 billion ksh. which is still grossly misappropriated. We shouldn't also ignore the internal security ministry which was given 43.5 Billion, and they havent bought anything to raise eyebrows.
If you want peace prepare for war, we are living in a volatile region, with terrorists planning on how they can attack, you dont expect us to sit still and pray for miracles. We must arm ourself and I support this fully.
Mwana wa Mungu,
Believe me, the Americans are already back in Somalia!
We have always known this...the problem with the Kenyan Millitary is that its very secretive.We even know that Kenya Airforce is the second best in Africa save for South Africa.Ask members of the Millitary and they will tell you even the Sudan or Ethiopia will not threaten Kenya.The call the Ugandan Army.....the un-Modernised bush Army,and the Tanzanian Army they call it Young Policemen from the south
We have always known this...the problem with the Kenyan Millitary is that its very secretive.We even know that Kenya Airforce is the second best in Africa save for South Africa.Ask members of the Millitary and they will tell you even the Sudan or Ethiopia will not threaten Kenya.The call the Ugandan Army.....the un-Modernised bush Army,and the Tanzanian Army they call it Young Policemen from the south
Duh! Mwanaume mbona umewaponda hivi? Ila ni ukweli kwamba vita havipiganwi kwa ubora wa silaha peke yake. Lazima kuambatanisha na mambo mengi kama vile umoja, mbinu za kivita, moyo wa kupigana, nk. Silaha bora peke yake huwezi shinda vita. kama ni silaha peke yake Amin Dada angeishinda TZ wakati wa vita ya Kagera kwani alikuwa na silaha kali kuliko JWTZ. Lakini alikosa maarifa yakivita, umoja, na moyo wa kupigana (sababu nzito). Kumbe kama unavyosema umoja ni wa lazima katika kuzipiga na adui; pia ukakamavu, mbinu za kivita, na kuwahiana (Rej. UP & MM kwa wale mliopitia "maKAR" - makea)American Vs Vietnam war?????? What do u know about this?
Read a book a book "The art of war by Sun Tzu " then you will know how easy is to fight and defeat segregated luos and kikuyus( Kenyan army) with matchetes.
Otherwise if it iss external threat that can help make Luos and kikiyu unite and have solidarity , then young policeman of the south can invent a conflict.
I was wondering if these guys truly knows what they're doing!
Extravagant millitary expenditure and yet you cant finance referundum?Constitution is the contract between citizens and leaders,it is the book of principles to guide the governors and the governed and yet you cant finance it.you are spending so much to acquire millitary facilities while your people can not even afford the basic needs or struggling to earn living
And funny enough even the citizens cannot question the moral,political,ecnomical and social legitimacy of such government expenditure.
Hunger is the most dangerous war on earth,feed your people and spend the litle money you have to establish a well civilized social welfare state.
How can you arm the starving pipo with tanks insteady of feeding them?how can you arm illiterate people insteady of givin them better education?how can you defend unemployed youths instead of arming them with job security? Let us be wise even once!
......countries like Tanzania would never buy any weapons in our lifetime simply because 90% of their budget is bankrolled by donors, ......
Hiyo bold ni ukweli kidogo. Bajeti ya bakuli kutoka nje ni 40% ndugu Smatta, sio 90%. Inakera, lakini ndio hali halisi! Ni chungu lakini dawa.
Hiyo bold ni ukweli kidogo. Bajeti ya bakuli kutoka nje ni 40% ndugu Smatta, sio 90%. Inakera, lakini ndio hali halisi! Ni chungu lakini dawa.
nashkuru ndugu, nime exagerate hiyo percentage to put emphasis on it kidogo, kuna ndugu yangu flani hapa kwenye jukwaa amesema hatufai kujihami kwa kuwa hatuna hata pesa za kupata katiba mpya, ndipo hapo nikamueleza kama thats the case basi pia nchi yake haifai kununua silaha (Any time soon) kwa kuwa asilimia kubwa ya bajeti ya nchi yake inatoka kwa mikopo kutoka nje, I didnt mean it in a bad way, I was just trying to show it as an example.
nashkuru ndugu, nime exagerate hiyo percentage to put emphasis on it kidogo, kuna ndugu yangu flani hapa kwenye jukwaa amesema hatufai kujihami kwa kuwa hatuna hata pesa za kupata katiba mpya, ndipo hapo nikamueleza kama thats the case basi pia nchi yake haifai kununua silaha (Any time soon) kwa kuwa asilimia kubwa ya bajeti ya nchi yake inatoka kwa mikopo kutoka nje, I didnt mean it in a bad way, I was just trying to show it as an example.
Sure!
Kimsingi sioni mantiki yoyote iwe kwa Kenya, Tanzania ama nchi yoyote ile maskini kutumia kiasi kikubwa cha pesa kununua silaha ilhali watu wake hawana hata maji safi ya kunywa, achilia mbali huduma za chakula na afya. The same with our Gulf stream plane and the like.
It's ridiculous.
the weapona are not for kenyan, its obvious the government of kenya is not that stupid to spend all that money to buy weapons that they don know where they are goin to use them, hao kenya ni vibaraka wa west kuliko nchi yoyote ktk ukanda uu wa africa mashariki, izo silaha ni za south sudan kujiandaa na vita na north sudan kama south sudan wakikataliwa kujitenga!