The incompetence of two men.

We have waited for the leadership to take steps to sort out the fiasco that was the recruitment of the magic figure of ten thousand police officers. "Leadership" would imply that the Commander-in-Chief, the Interior Cabinet Secretary, the Interior Principal Secretary, the Inspector-General, the Chairperson of the National Police Service Commission and the Chairperson of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority. It has been a month. All we have seen are various degrees of hemming and hawing as the leadership pussyfoots around the "sensitive" subject.

I love my fellowman. I love my fellowman when he is as devout a Christian as David Mole Kimaiyo. I love my fellowman when he goes out of his way to study the Word of God and spreads the message in all the corners of the world. But that won't stop me from saying that the mistakes that Mr Kimaiyo has made have resulted in the steepest decline in the peoples' confidence in a police boss ever witnessed. Mr Kimaiyo does not enjoy any form of credibility with the suffering peoples of Kenya. Mr Kimaiyo has become a byword for incompetence and ineffectiveness. His lapses might even border on the casually negligent.

The Commander-in-Chief declared that he wanted the people of Kenya to enjoy the same degree of security throughout the nation so that they could go about the business of prospering in this land of opportunity. He made this declaration in the chambers of the national assembly in front of the elected representatives of the people. He promised to take security seriously. Every day that he and his security apparatus have failed the people of Kenya is a painful reminder that the safety of the people has never been a priority, just the security of the fatcats capable of losing eight billion shillings down the back of the sofa.

While the Commander-in-Chief is busy playing musical chairs with his intelligence chiefs, the rest of his securocracy is busily finding new ways of demonstrating its incompetence. Take the scuttled MV Bushehr. Few intelligent Kenyans are willing to believe that the ship was "intercepted" when it was just about to berth. What we suspect is that the law enforcement officers and the heroin smugglers simply failed to agree on the size of the bribe. Or this mystery BMW that is "not part of the Presidential Fleet" that ended up in Uganda. Who among the intelligent isn't asking why the Commander-in-Chief's security seems so easy to infiltrate? What if the vehicle had merely been borrowed and then returned in the form of a Trojan Horse with a cache of explosives secreted in its bowels?

In these comedies of errors are the bespectacled, mumbling and flatfooted visages of the Inspector-General and the gap-toothed smile of the Interior Cabinet Secretary. There is regional balance and political horsetrading. Then there is tomfoolery of the highest order. Aren't there other qualified men or women from where the hapless Messrs Kimaiyo and Ole Lenku hail from? We have been patient, Amri-Jeshi Mkuu. We really have. Our patience is wearing thin. One more outrage and we might even start questioning the wisdom of the Commander-in-Chief swanning around in Field Marshall's fatigues while his people are put at ever greater risk because of the incompetence of two men.