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Enough is enough, protect Kenyan fishermen

Fishermen from Lake Naivasha collect some of the abandoned nets which have choked the water body killing hundreds of fish and affecting navigation exercise. [ Antony Gitonga, Standard]

There are real signs of an ineffective government, and failure to protect citizens is topmost among them. It is disconcerting when a country boasts vibrant institutions but fails to look after basic safety and security of its people. Citizens are the most primed resource.    

An expressway, a thriving port, a modern railway and name it, may be nothing to write home about when citizens live at the mercy of alien rogues in the marketplace.

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