Kenyans must be sick to their stomachs. We all are. We all are shaking with the deepest sadness one can possibly imagine. Those innocent faces – shocked, panic-stricken and bewildered. Shoppers at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall knew nothing about the violence that left at least 30 innocent people dead in one of the most spine-chilling terrorist attacks in the region in more than a decade. Parents threw their bodies over their children, while other people cowered behind the plastic mannequins as heartless Islamists that don’t value life moved through the crowded mall shooting innocent people indiscriminately. Westgate was like a scene from an action-packed Hollywood movie. The Police did their best. Soldiers did their best. We cannot blame them.
Kenyans must be sick to their stomachs. We all are. We all are shaking with the deepest sadness one can possibly imagine. Those innocent faces – shocked, panic-stricken and bewildered.
Shoppers at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall knew nothing about the violence that left at least 30 innocent people dead in one of the most spine-chilling terrorist attacks in the region in more than a decade.
Parents threw their bodies over their children, while other people cowered behind the plastic mannequins as heartless Islamists that don’t value life moved through the crowded mall shooting innocent people indiscriminately. Westgate was like a scene from an action-packed Hollywood movie. The Police did their best. Soldiers did their best. We cannot blame them.
As the East African Community, it is our job to protect our brothers and sisters. That is our job – and should always be our number one priority. We failed to protect soccer fans in Uganda in 2010. We failed again in Nairobi yesterday.
Never mind that American officials have long warned that malls were ripe targets for Islamist terrorists. This is not the time to talk about the Al Shabaab. It is time for us to finally do something about it!