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Kenya Airways stop flights to Hong Kong, Hanoi
Kenya Airways stop flights to Hong Kong, Hanoi
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Probable cause is in this Analysis - Laos is 'world's fastest growing' ivory market
[Tom Ogwe Otieno -
Geopolitical Intelligence,Security Audits & Risk
Kenya ]
Intelligence communities thrives on unmasking dark forces thereby develop scenario's to address troubling intelligence questions. For instance an investigation by Kenya-based group Save the Elephants has established that the fastest growing ivory market in the world is now Laos, raises award intelligence questions on the Kenya's aviation sector, an analyst will try to relate the findings with a recent decision to by a major African Airline to discontinue its flights to Hong Kong and Hanoi, Vietnam possibly as a risk control measure.
Matter of fact Customs is in the process of hiring officials with a background in intelligence gathering and crime investigation as it prepares to crack down on illicit trade and tax evasion - Maybe now there will be opportunities for our type of -skill-set both in the public and private sector. Lessons Learned An airline brand can face a good beating if its operations gets to be associated with illegal wildlife trade, its can become a focus of customs who have decided to deploy intelligence -gathering tools and personnel to boost investigation of individuals and companies suspected of engaging in tax and financial crimes and lead to more convictions.
This much is how law enforcement has changed, collaboration with the public and subject matter experts is more menacing than traditional investigative agencies, going forward crime lords will be in serious trouble. Picture this, the American government wants hackers and coders to use their skills in developing solutions to tackle wildlife trafficking and related crime.
East Africa must learn lessons from studies by international community. For example, Americans and Interpol have established that money that comes from this trafficking is also used to fuel other crimes - i.e. "gate keeping” and establishment of smuggling pipelines at border points. Studies show that lot of Ivory and related illegal wildlife products are smuggled out of East Africa through our porous borders. Porous in a sense that stakeholders in out border points of entry and exit fail in due diligence, either due to corrupt practices or simple incompetence.
Marked improvement has been observed, with the Operationalization of Security Laws Amendment Act 2014 that established Border Control and Operations Coordination Committee better controls will be established. Capt. A. Taib ICAO AVSEC PM pointed out in his well-written piece - "A Hypothetical Imperative On Al Shabaab & Kenya's Civil Aviation" published in LinkedIn pointed out that; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hypothetical-imperative-al-shabaab-kenyas-civil-icao-avsec-pm/ [ Capt. A. Taib - we could start by what others have done in tracking the influential forces that shape it, but first, it is crucial to understand how attacks are conducted and place an attack for example to our many porous airports this in context]. That much is a 100% correct, it’s a statement of fact that ought to be a rule of thumb applied by all Border Management Committees in East Africa and sectors infested with smuggling pipelines, particular in the Aviation and Maritime.
[Eze Eluchie -
Sub Sahara Africa Representative, Civil Society TaskForce, UN General Assembly Special Session on Drug Policy (UNGASS)
Nigeria ]
When I recollect that Kenyan authorities recently burned millions of dollars worth of ivory and Laos is now reaping a bountiful harvest from ivory trade, one cannot but wonder as to who initiated such policy in Kenya. South Africa is adopting a more sensible possible approach with it's recent ease of the total ban on Rhino horn sales. freemind : Destroying Cash - As Kenya Burns Raw US$30+ Million
[Tom Ogwe Otieno]
Eze Eluchie - There is a difference between southern Africans experience and Kenya's situation. From a purely security point of view, Kenya is surrounded by countries suffering insurgency - Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan who would love and have been fueling poaching to stock arms. On the same, in some Asian countries - Vietnam, Thailand, China,Japan, South Korea etc Ivory trinkets and Rhino horns are more precious than gold both as a source of wealth and even spiritually. There are sects that believe that true deity can only be sculptured through Ivory. A lot has been invested to contain the trade in wildlife products particularly in Kenya and Tanzania. Unlike East Africa in South Africa wildlife is restricted to areas controlled by the minority whites and farming of wildlife is a commercial activity designed to create jobs for whites.
Conflict between animals and humans minimized because the lands around wild life corridors are titled to whites, appreciate that even in conservation racism does exist - a white-man hunting for sport is a sound wildlife management concept, locals hunting for food and population control are poachers. This brings me to your question on how Kenya arrived on a policy to burn ivory.
The White settler community in Kenya are from noble European lines, related to the house of Windsor or children of the first families of aristocratic Europe, the settlers in Southern Africa are children of European economic refugees who are stuck in Africa and hustle for a living. This informs the clear double standards at play in policy formulation.
Tom Ogwe Otieno on LinkedIn: "Analysis - Laos is 'world's…
Debate continues:
[Tom Ogwe Otieno -
Geopolitical Intelligence,Security Audits & Risk
Kenya ]
Intelligence communities thrives on unmasking dark forces thereby develop scenario's to address troubling intelligence questions. For instance an investigation by Kenya-based group Save the Elephants has established that the fastest growing ivory market in the world is now Laos, raises award intelligence questions on the Kenya's aviation sector, an analyst will try to relate the findings with a recent decision to by a major African Airline to discontinue its flights to Hong Kong and Hanoi, Vietnam possibly as a risk control measure.
Matter of fact Customs is in the process of hiring officials with a background in intelligence gathering and crime investigation as it prepares to crack down on illicit trade and tax evasion - Maybe now there will be opportunities for our type of -skill-set both in the public and private sector. Lessons Learned An airline brand can face a good beating if its operations gets to be associated with illegal wildlife trade, its can become a focus of customs who have decided to deploy intelligence -gathering tools and personnel to boost investigation of individuals and companies suspected of engaging in tax and financial crimes and lead to more convictions.
This much is how law enforcement has changed, collaboration with the public and subject matter experts is more menacing than traditional investigative agencies, going forward crime lords will be in serious trouble. Picture this, the American government wants hackers and coders to use their skills in developing solutions to tackle wildlife trafficking and related crime.
East Africa must learn lessons from studies by international community. For example, Americans and Interpol have established that money that comes from this trafficking is also used to fuel other crimes - i.e. "gate keeping” and establishment of smuggling pipelines at border points. Studies show that lot of Ivory and related illegal wildlife products are smuggled out of East Africa through our porous borders. Porous in a sense that stakeholders in out border points of entry and exit fail in due diligence, either due to corrupt practices or simple incompetence.
Marked improvement has been observed, with the Operationalization of Security Laws Amendment Act 2014 that established Border Control and Operations Coordination Committee better controls will be established. Capt. A. Taib ICAO AVSEC PM pointed out in his well-written piece - "A Hypothetical Imperative On Al Shabaab & Kenya's Civil Aviation" published in LinkedIn pointed out that; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hypothetical-imperative-al-shabaab-kenyas-civil-icao-avsec-pm/ [ Capt. A. Taib - we could start by what others have done in tracking the influential forces that shape it, but first, it is crucial to understand how attacks are conducted and place an attack for example to our many porous airports this in context]. That much is a 100% correct, it’s a statement of fact that ought to be a rule of thumb applied by all Border Management Committees in East Africa and sectors infested with smuggling pipelines, particular in the Aviation and Maritime.
[Eze Eluchie -
Sub Sahara Africa Representative, Civil Society TaskForce, UN General Assembly Special Session on Drug Policy (UNGASS)
Nigeria ]
When I recollect that Kenyan authorities recently burned millions of dollars worth of ivory and Laos is now reaping a bountiful harvest from ivory trade, one cannot but wonder as to who initiated such policy in Kenya. South Africa is adopting a more sensible possible approach with it's recent ease of the total ban on Rhino horn sales. freemind : Destroying Cash - As Kenya Burns Raw US$30+ Million
[Tom Ogwe Otieno]
Eze Eluchie - There is a difference between southern Africans experience and Kenya's situation. From a purely security point of view, Kenya is surrounded by countries suffering insurgency - Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan who would love and have been fueling poaching to stock arms. On the same, in some Asian countries - Vietnam, Thailand, China,Japan, South Korea etc Ivory trinkets and Rhino horns are more precious than gold both as a source of wealth and even spiritually. There are sects that believe that true deity can only be sculptured through Ivory. A lot has been invested to contain the trade in wildlife products particularly in Kenya and Tanzania. Unlike East Africa in South Africa wildlife is restricted to areas controlled by the minority whites and farming of wildlife is a commercial activity designed to create jobs for whites.
Conflict between animals and humans minimized because the lands around wild life corridors are titled to whites, appreciate that even in conservation racism does exist - a white-man hunting for sport is a sound wildlife management concept, locals hunting for food and population control are poachers. This brings me to your question on how Kenya arrived on a policy to burn ivory.
The White settler community in Kenya are from noble European lines, related to the house of Windsor or children of the first families of aristocratic Europe, the settlers in Southern Africa are children of European economic refugees who are stuck in Africa and hustle for a living. This informs the clear double standards at play in policy formulation.
Tom Ogwe Otieno on LinkedIn: "Analysis - Laos is 'world's…
Debate continues:
