Kenya Government: Public Relations Nightmare

DESPAIR AT THE MANNER IN WHICH THE Kenya government is conducting some of its public affairs is growing as revelations of fumbling, ineptitude or, worse, criminal negligence on matters touching on the national interest emerge.

While many of the errors of commission and omission committed by the Kibaki administration when it assumed office in 2003 could have been excused as part of the learning curve, this is no longer acceptable.

Each new revelation points at the frightening prospect of real systemic failure in the government. Such failings include the humiliation inflicted on the nation by two shadowy foreigners, allegedly from Armenia, who managed to circumvent all security checks in a manner unprecedented in post-independence Kenya.

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