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Sheikh al Faisal entry was a major security lapse

Ndung’u Wainaina

The Jamaica-born cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal saga has embarrassingly exposed the coalition government’s business-as-usual attitude. Four shocking things are clear: systemic intelligence and security failure, deployment of ethno-religious fear and division as the stock-in–trade of control, devastating effects of entrenched prejudices, stereotypes and discrimination and cost of pervasive corruption to state stability and security.

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