THE AFTERMATH OF THE WESTGATE ATTACK

I foresee a situation where

• Al Shabbab are emboldened by the act of terror that struck at the heart of Kenya's economic class.
• Victimisation of Muslims and Somalis,from the verbal attacks to most likely a retaliation from people who have had a pent-up anger at the acts of the terrorism and who associate the terrorists with either Muslims or Somalis,to physical assault on them in the form of gun-attacks and arbitrary arrests by the government forces.
• Increased funding and work of the Anti Terrorist Police Unit.This will be a means to neutralise the so-called terrosts.Funding can only from one source,external governments because we are too strained as a nation to stain a war on terror.
• Greater subjugation of the Muslims in Kenya and throughout the world as they try to fit in and fear reprisal for not towing the official line.All Imams will be warned,Muslim sermons monitored and the practice of Islam undermined.
• Kenya does not pull-out of Somalia,we are forced to bear the human cost of the war in Somalia and  economic stagnation as we focus solely on funding the military and forget all about economic development.
• Massive decline in tourists arrival and foreign investment in Kenya,resulting in diminished GDP growth and greater recipe for a human capital problem in Kenya due to masssssssive unemployment.
• Regional witch hunting where every country  will find it profitable to claim Al Shabaab attack in order to get funding from the powers that be.
• Crime rates will increase due to a combination of the above factors.

I hope and pray that am wrong on all the above,but seldom am I wrong in these matters of prediction.Currently am too affected and shaken by the events at the Mall that I cannot write a long treatise expounding on the above.All I can hope for is quick resolution of the stand-off and peace on earth.