Let's skip Covid-19 for now & redress the fire bit, in which all our hospitals & health facilities for that matter are sitting ducks. Remember the Coast Gen & Msa Hosp fires of 2019 ? Did we learn anything ? @Hitlerlaw2@AbdillahiTaib@africaupdates
Lets take the Mumbai hosp fire as a wake up call & use it to look at any major public or even private hospital in Kenya. How prepared are both the hospitals & our supposed emergency services ? From Lodwar to Lamu, crisscrossing Moyale to Kisumu. What do you see other than mayhem?
That Disaster Mgmt was devolved whilst in ICU as the Constitution 2010 took effect, is no secret. But has been attained in trying to make do with the razzmatazz, we Nationally pretend is in place to serve, when disaster strikes. Mr. President Sir, @FredMatiangi@KenyaGovernors?
Pick at random any hospital, I pick Kitui Level 5 hospital in @mamangilu's domain. Other than being a Level 5 death trap, in fire preparedness. What is so level 5 in the County emergency prevention & response prowess ? @KituiCountyGovt@NYouthCouncil@KituiOnline@skmusyoka
When was the last fire systems inspection in the Kitui Level 5 hospital last conducted ? When was a fire drill, staff fire training & or emergency evacuation drill last conducted ? On response, is the Kitui Fire & Rescue service up to the task ?
When it comes to the County Fire Prep'dness & Emergency response prowess. County Fire Brigade capabilities @mamangilu ? For starters, every fire call is different, that said, does your's ever expect to answer a hospital fire call ? Not in their life time. so how prep'd are they?
Lets do an inventory of response capabilities here.... Fire trucks, turntable ladder, water reserve tanker, HAZMAT response, ambulances & competent proficiently trained personnel as the main condiment. What do you see ? @PeopleDailyKe@StandardKenya@NationAfrica@africaupdates
When will we begin to call a spade, what it really is & not a big spoon ? At this moment in time, on of the most important documents that can set stage of prep'dness & efficient response should such a disaster strike. Is gathering dust in Parliament. The DRM 2020 Bill.
How then do we even begin thinking that under the current Jubilee regime, its lacklustre don't care approach & or Uhuru Kenyatta's rather myopic leadership where DRM is concerned. Were are any safer ? @SenMutula@SakajaJohnson@ledamalekina@threadreaderapp unroll
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@InteriorKE@IG_NPS 2 years line since its inception, guarding duties & scarecrow deterrence techniques & Al Shabaab's passion for targeting Comms towers in North Eastern aside. What has the CIPU achieved to aid the bigger National Security picture ? @ajfactual52@alaminkimathi
Critical infrastructure being the various physical, systems & assets vital to Kenya. Where their incapacitation or destruction has a debilitating impact on our physical, economic security, public health & or safety. What has the CIPU achieved especially without proper backing?
I dare say proper backing, simply because the yester years NDOC Kenya now rather defunct thanks to @FredMatiangi's genius is a dead horse, & would have for starters have served as a lead agency in policy formulation & coordination functionalities @Anon1KENYA@chothep@BasilioCC
ESS provides a wide range of prevention, prep'dness, response, & recovery services during both day-to-day operations & incident response. It must include geographically distributed facilities & equipment in both paid & volunteer capacities organized primarily at County level.
The mission being to save lives, protect property & the environment, assist communities impacted by disasters, & aid recovery during emergencies. Five distinct disciplines compose the ESS, encompassing a wide range of emergency response functions & roles:
@NMS_Kenya The residents say, firefighters took too long to get to the scene. When they eventually arrived, couldn’t extinguish the fire due to dilapidated state of the equipment. Is this true ? Over to you Gen.Badi. Thread. @Ibrahimjohnny@Hitlerlaw2 kenyans.co.ke/news/62773-fir…
By the time @MikeSonko was impeached, he had added another 26 new trucks & 3 new Fire Stns were pending commissioning. @NMS_Kenya was on record too, having rehabilitated others. So how come equipment is being reported dilapidated? @siambiliki@ParassisO@waluwande@WanjikuRevolt
@NMS_Kenya@StateHouseKenya On 6/10/20 Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off recovered Emergency Response vehicles that had been grounded for several years. These were meant to aid service delivery under the NMS. But, forgot to flag off brains supposed to compliment the same ? Thread.
Even without accounting for the COVID-19 pandemic, itself an opportunity for the well connected to fleece us. Disasters in waiting form the biggest chunk of the ever growing crises waiting to plague Nairobi County & her susceptible areas. But who cares ?
This vulnerability continues to remain misunderstood, yet it includes a critical combination of various aspects @NMS_Kenya is poorly equipped to address. This including & not being limited to Nairobi's built environment, governance, & underlying social vulnerabilities.
That Aviation has potential to make an important contribution to Kenya's economic growth & development. Or air transport can open, connect markets, facilitate trade & enable Kenyan firms link with global supply chains, aside. Are we really honest, with KQ & or the inflicted woes?
Yet KQ plays an especially pivotal role in just-in-time our manufacturing production & in speeding fresh produce from agricultural communities in Kenya as a developing economy to markets in the industrialised world ?
@StateHouseKenya Mr. President.
With our hazards history, impacts of which continue to affect, many especially the poor. Having a limping @InteriorKE as lead State Dept & populating it with a Hitler for CS & Mussolini for PS to address disasters is a crime against humanity, Sir!
We can blame it on all manner of causative factors & excuses. But the bottom line is, @InteriorKE as a State Dept in charge of Disaster Mgmt is a failure the leadership therein insensitive to boot & guilty of ineptitude where the subject matter is concerned.
@InteriorKE continues to fail miserably especially in the role of providing support & technical assistance to both National & County Govts jurisdictions. Something the @NDOCKenya used to try doing before, its mandate was usurped by the GSU Hqs based wannabes. the police run NDMA.