Cant Kenyans be trusted?

Traveling to Tanzania by road recently, Martin Tairo Maseghe came across nearly 10 police roadblocks some 20km or less apart between Nairobi and Namanga. But on crossing into Tanzania on his way to Arusha, which is almost the same distance from the border as Nairobi, he counted only three police checks. He poses: “Does this mean that we are more secure in Kenya or simply that Kenyans can’t be trusted, hence the heavy police presence?


Published in the Daily Nation of October 13th, 2008