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Exnavyboy62:That might be true for the west. But for Japan, I guess it depends on the country.. In Kenya Japan has been the biggest billateral lender since independence,and they have been consistent with no scandals. They were only overtaken by China back in 2013 and that was as a result of one single project (a railway project) But it as the years go by and as China is slowing down on its investments, Japan is set to take that position once more. |
kabe1:I'm not an animal person but the slightly burnt cat got to me man! |
Lurker4Long:He is heading to the supreme court to dispute the results! I voted for him but dude needs to let it go and rest in peace, 5 times he has lost, he didn't even mentor anyone to take over his idealogies, he is leaving his people orphans. Anyone with time and a calculator can literally count the votes by themselves, like seriously, you can download all the forms and start counting... 5,000 observers did a parralel count at the constituency level using the physical forms and they got their results 3 days b4 official announcement, Reuters International did their own count using the forms uploaded on the online portal. A citizen led open source transparency group did an online tally using excel.... And although their numbers were slightly different, the % votes for each candidate was similar to the elections body's IEBC final anoucement !!!! Ruto won fare and square, What the chairman of IEBC did last minute was out of order indeed and only him knows why he did that, but that can't negate the will of the people who have spoken, the numbers are there to see. Anyone arguing is arguing about technicalities on how the final results were anounced, but not the numbers. I'm not seeing anyone saying, 'oh, look here this 1 was supposed to have three zeroes after it, they made a mistake in adding here and here' |
Kenya scored above the 2030 global target of 90% in aviation security system - Audited by ICAO
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NTSA:All that matters to me is that we produce it locally and we dont need anyones license... infact, I hope all the metal alloys used to manufacture are imported from African countries via road transport. |
This Maritime cooperation between Kenya and Seychelles was further cemented by the arrival of Kenya Navy Ship Jasiri on the Seychelles shores. The two presidents had lunch aboard the ship together with the commander of Kenya Navy. The Commander Kenya Navy Major General Jimson Mutai hosted H.E Hon Uhuru Kenyatta President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander- in -Chief of the Defence Forces and the President of the Republic of Seychelles H.E Hon Wavel Ramkalawan to a luncheon onboard Kenya Navy Ship (KNS) JASIRI on 18 July 2022.
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Looks like Kenya is cementing her position as a relevant player in the maritime area on the East African Seaboard, don know if its because of the Somalia/Kenya maritime dispute or its because of its ambitions to start exploring her blue economy potential. Kenya's President is currently on a state visit to the island nation of Seychelles President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday evening attended a state banquet hosted in his honour by President Wavel Ramkalawan of Seychelles. Also signed was Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) for cooperation on peace, security and law enforcement at sea as well as maritime affairs.Some background info worthy of note: Kenya Applied to UN to extend her Exclusive Economic Zone by a further 150nm - from the normal 200 nautical miles from land to 350 Nautical miles Pic 1: If you look at the position of Seychelles on the map, then it becomes relevant that for this to work, Kenya will need Seychelles cooperation cause this extended zone gets very close to its territory. pic 2 & 3: Shows the Extended EEZ Pic 3: Kenya's president arriving in Seychelles
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NTSA:Notice the trigger discipline |
kabe1:Kenyas modest version ![]()
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Kenya president arriving at World Rally Championship Finals escorted by 2 helos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH5_ky-TukQ bonus: some highlights from the WRC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sudb6Z97O8 |
GeneralFarouq:True but we also have to note that circumstances are different in every war.. In this case it was basically Russia against Nato weaponry in Ukraine... We are talking about a Ukraine that is able to resupply and replenish weaponry every month. If this was Nato against Ukraine, The US would have detroyed all air defences and air assets of the Ukraine on week one b4 enforcing a no fly zone over Ukraine airspace thereby mainitaining complete air dominace, then they would have put a blockade on Ukraine territory against getting any kind of military help from outside. And within a month Ukraine would have run out of military supplies, and any kind of replenishment within the territory would have been intercepted and destroyed by fighter jets in a moments notice... If it had happened in Nato sytle fashion like this, the artlicles would be writing a different story and telling us that mordern conventional wars are determined by air superiority and not artlillery or tanks. |
MoD sponsored Inaugural Kenya Space Expo Hon. Wamalwa exuded confidence that the expo had, to a great extent, achieved its intended objectives and had placed Kenya on the right trajectory to achieve the theme of “Leveraging Space Capabilities for National Development”.
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Lurker4Long:Its a nightmare process that takes approx 3 months... First you have to go to your nearest police station where you live and make a formal request. And of course they are going to give you a hard time b4 they hand you the request form. Then you have to get certified by a govt psychiatrist that you are not delusional or suicidal. Then you have go to Nairobi for an interview with the licensing board where you will also give your bank statement, Tax returns and police clearance certificate certifying you are not a suspect or hv been convicted b4. You'll also have to write a letter explaining why you want to own a firearm. After passing all these hurdles, they then take your finger prints and give you a smart card.... This process is not always straight forward and transparent.... You could go for months waiting for your licence... Anyway, with Chalbi Industries promoting this competition and encouraging more civies to join, here is to hoping the process will become simpler and staright forward.
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Sleuth2:Still waiting for the day were after being cleared to carry, I can just walk into a gun shop in the city and walk away with a handgun just like that! |
MAN1960:What don't you understand? This plane is probably (most definitely) better equiped and capable in performance manuverability , it has more modern defense countermeasures than the official presidential jet. This is a tactical plane, which is probably what the presidential security were going for. |
Intriguing subtext , KDF Chief met with Rwanda's CDF 4 days before travelling to DRC to to meet other regional CDFs and conclude modalities of establishing a regional force to fight rebels in DRC
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kabe1:Huh, the amount of tank turrets lying besides highways in Ukrain made me think our numbers are ridiculous even if we had 500 still wouldn't be enough... Or maybe we should invest more on ATGMs? Yes alshabaab is definitely a spent force, back then their propaganda videos were actually scary, they almost looked like a conventional army without tanks or an Airforce or a navy. They numbered between 16k to 20k... Now estimates put them btn 6k to 10k after replanishing their numbers with new recruits who grow scanty everyday and have less training.. Infact the only thing that has kept them going was the influx of money and bomb experts from m.east who introduced new ways of making cheaper but more powerful IEDs including VBIEDs, this is what has been keeping them afloat, the IEDs do maximum damage with minimum force, then they spen the rest of the time studying and planning their next one time big large scale attacks to remind everyone they are 'still powerful'. We have reached a point I don't even think the rest of alshabaab needs an army to defeat them, AMISOM has won the ideological war, we don't need to fight them anymore, what we need to do is build roads, factories, hospitals and train their civil servants and civilian police to run local administration... Once people start getting paying jobs, youths would see alshabaab as the ones holding them back and not their saviours. On military procurement, apart from the At-802u light attack aircraft, there isn't any major purchase that's on my radar.. I think Kenya put a break on major purchases because of the huge loans we took for the country's infrastructure, there just isn't any room to justify that kind of spending for the military, parliament would never aprove. Instead the military has been concentrating on low hanging fruits like enhancing local manufacturing for uniforms, boots, ammunition, rifles, military rations, improving training programs.. Bettering Soldier personal protection (it's very rare to see a soldier on the frontline without body armour today, it used to be be common occurrence in the past) We have also seen significant investment in soldier welfare systems... like housing, family support through education and medical cover for dependants , life insurance for soldiers KIA etc https://www.pd.co.ke/news/bill-to-cushion-military-veterans-after-service-114610/ |
Tinfoil:It's always good to get context. Where were you back then? Did you have this belief all along and you didn't want to hear anything else that didn't support your narrative? There was a conference in which the Chief of Defence Forces explained everything.. And b4 you laugh me off for believing the General, He did admit that some soldiers looted! I will come back to this at the end. Two things happened: 1: The commanding officer on the ground gave permission to the soldiers to help themselves to water and food from the supermarket stored since the whole ordeal took days to end and they had rushed in to the scene without such supplies... So what might appear as looting on camera is actually just easily explainable Gen Karangi has previously said that soldiers had only taken water because they were thirsty but on Tuesday, he said two soldiers had been sacked after being found with items such mobile phones and cameras stolen from the shopping centre.Here is a video of the CDF admitting to some soldiers looting and that 2 soldiers had already been courtmartialed and jailed while a third was under investigation together with her wife. https://youtube.com/watch?v=QFLBjRv1FRw Kenya's military has jailed two soldiers found guilty of looting during last month's Nairobi mall siege.2: After the fire broke out, Orders from above came in that all cash from Banks, Forex, Tellers had to be secured from all safes so as not to be destroyed by fire... So once, again, what might appear as looting on camera could be something else... Eventually KDF gave back $3 million dollers it had secured from the mall. The Kenya Defence Forces yesterday confirmed that it took money for safe keeping from businesses at the Westgate Mall.https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2013-10-05-soldiers-repatriated-sh300m-from-westgate-major-chirchir/ _________ If KDF was as corrupt as you want us to believe, and that the corruption started from the top. The CDF would have never had the courage to admit live on TV about the looting. He would have never had the will to clean up the bad apples by cortmarialling them, instead he would have denied the truth and taken it to his grave. He would have been afraid that if he took action against 3 elite soldiers for indescipline yet he was also corrupt, he would have risked the rest of the soldiers from the same unit leaking 'the truth' about what really goes on behind closed doors in the barracks. So when @NTSA says "The kenyan military leadership Wants to maintain high standards of discipline within the service." It's the truth cause we have seen time and time again that when mistakes happen within KDF, they take punitive actions to correct them and make sure they serve as a lesson to others, That's how you know that the vision is to become a more professional, capable disciplined force. In the case of Westgate, mistakes happened and punitive action was taken regardless of rank,skills and the embarrassment it caused BTW: A little secret I may let you in on. While a detailed budget for KDF is secret. The Auditor General gets full access as per the law. If you wanna know about corruption in the military, read the AG's report.. |
kabe1:65 T-72 tanks (give or take) had already been delivered to South Sudan b4 this highjacking incident. I believe the highjacked ship was the final shipment. It included 33 tanks, and 7 Multiple Rocket Launchers They were all transported via the old rail to Nairobi (Kahawa Barracks) Satellite imagery showed they stayed there for a while and were pictured being used in training exercises. While the heavy T-72 tanks did stay, I have never been able to spot the MRL systems evrrr since they were pictured being offloaded in Mombasa port... If we had them we would have surely used them in Somalia especially during the initial Operation Linda Nchi campaign when Alshabaab was fighting like a conventional army (they had uniforms, some APCs, Toyota technicals mounted with anti aircraft guns and moved in formation.. etc) a MRL would have been perfect hellfire for them.. So the lack of evidence points to a scenario where the MRLs which were part of the cargo from the highjacked ship still made their way to S.Sudan
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NTSA:A few exerpts from different sources “South Sudan is assembling an armour fleet, preparing for any eventuality in its enduring dispute with Khartoum,” reported the latest edition of trade journal Jane’s Defence Weekly.https://www.reuters.com/article/ozatp-sudan-south-arms-20090709-idAFJOE56803720090709 One year after the Hijacking, and after it was no longer a secret Kenya dispatches military experts to train South Sudan armyhttps://sudantribune.com/article32144/ From nytimes Bush administration officials knew of the earlier weapons transactions and chose not to shut them down ,an official from southern Sudan asserted in an interview, and the cables acknowledge the Kenyan officials’ assertions that they had kept American officials informed about the deal. But once the pirates exposed the arms pipeline through Kenya, the Obama administration protested to the Ukrainian and Kenyan governments, even threatening sanctions, the cables show.Still from NYtimes, Both Kenya and US we're sharing details of the kind of assistance they were providing to SPLM The agreement also allows southern Sudan to buy arms to transform its guerrilla army into a defense force, and the United States has also publicly said that it has provided communications and other “nonlethal” equipment and training to the southern army, called the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, or S.P.L.A. The cables suggest that effort has gone further than the United States has publicized. When Ukrainian officials were approached by American officials about the arms shipments in July 2008, they insisted that the weapons were intended for Kenya’s military. Even so, some American diplomats understood otherwise and did not appear very concerned. In a cable from Oct. 19, 2008, Alberto M. Fernandez, who served as the chargé d’affaires in Khartoum, reports that he told officials from southern Sudan that while the United States would prefer not to see an arms buildup in the region, it understood that the government there “feels compelled to do the same” as the north. He also cautioned the officials to take care, if there were future shipments, to avoid a repeat hijacking by pirates and “the attention it has drawn.”https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/africa/09wikileaks-tank.html --------; After reading the NYtimes article I now realize that G.Bush was more friendly to Kenya than Obama our own son , that nigga!!!
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kabe1:They were meant for S.Sudan, Then the ship got hijacked by Somali Pirates back then, then the ships manifest was revealed to everyone by the pirates and it became an international incident... With Kenya risking being exposed for breaking an amrs embargo that had been put in place by the US on Sudan for supporting Bin Laden and Alqaeda , Kenya had to save face by pretending publicly that the tanks were meant for Kenya and not S.Sudan... So long story short, The tanks got stuck with us or is it we got stuck with the tanks ? The funny thing though is that the CIA knew that we were secretely facilitating the arming of SPLM (the CIA even participated in the training of SPLM on how to use these weapons) to enebale them defend themselves against khatoum govt in the fight for self rule but when it was exposed by pirates, the US threw Kenya under the bus, their state department was even considering sanctions against Kenya and Ukraine... But the US Congress investigation is what revealed the truth about US involvement, and in the end they had no choice but to develop selective amnesia and forget the whole thing. |
Speaking of Landing Ships... KDF's Landing ships are not sufficient enough they are forced to seek additional services from a locally built civilian landing craft to transport vehicles between Kismayu/Somalia and Kenya
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NTSA:It's the last National Public Holiday for the CiC if they don't honor him then then I don't see another opportunity cause KDF Day is on 14 October, The end of his 2nd term is one month b4 that. |
1st pic: KNS Jamhuri pic 2 : Some other KNS ship that was armed with missile too. If we had built upon this we would be having a different navy right now
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lionel4power:That's why they have been put up on display at the museum as part of our military history. Anyway, Throwback ...About the Navy system. KNS Madaraka
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NTSA:I was watching live via phone and I saw some rockets and missiles at the Navy and army sections... Man it's sad to realize that we were better armed in the 70s than we are currently
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Toju200:Should be working now |
Baliv254:From the inside of our Jet #MuseumAirShow https://twitter.com/KDF_MAJESHI/status/1530584827027673090 Whish these videos were like 10 min long! ![]() From the inside of our Jet #MuseumAirShow https://twitter.com/KDF_MAJESHI/status/1531180048253956096 |
DCI Kenya forensic lab In Nairobi ... They plan to build a forensic lab in every administrative region in the country..
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Forensics experts from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations DCI Kenya were invited to Syschelles for conduct a forensic investigation of a mysterious cache of arms that was discovered there. DCI Kenya is taking the invitation as proof that their forensic expertise have finally come of age to finally begin to have a reputation for expert work.
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