No signs of a national protest movement on the horizon over graft

Nairobi based social justice advocate Ben Philips reckons the best way of measuring inequality is to calculate the number of private security guards employed in any given country. That being the case, Kenya is definitely one of the most unequal societies on the planet. 

There are currently half a million security guards deployed on a daily basis to protect the rich from the poor. That effectively means 1 per cent of the population is employed to secure the property and wealth of another 1 per cent and to keep the other envious 98 per cent at bay. Startling! To ensure that these guards are more effective and equipped, the Security Regulatory Board under the influence of Fazul Mohamed – better known for his incessant bullying of civil society organisations – now wants to give fire arms to a considerable percentage of them.