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Bomb Scare at the UNDP
An interesting morning, this one. Arriving into work at 8:15am, I was not allowed near the UNDP building. Appearently, UN security received a bomb scare, indicating a bomb had been planted in the UNDP building. The few staff members that were not on vacation - perhaps 15% of the total - milled around the gardens, waiting for security to show up with sniffer dogs - which they did promptly after 1 hour.
I had been complaining for days about how tough security was, how difficult it was for visitors to get into the UN compound at Gigiri, and how it was impossible to drive in. Now my complaints were being answered, and security looks set to get worse.
Two hours later and the building had been cleared. But not the question of why anyone in their right mind would target the UNDP? I mean, how could the UNDP ever harm anyone? What did the UNDP do - nothing, right?
I still do not get it. Without exception, the UNDP gets a lot of respect from most International Organizations - including the Americans. So maybe the bomb scare came not because of what we did, but because of what we did not do.
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Is it something that Kenyans are used to, or is just related to the Erithrean conflict across the border ? In fact, I shouldn’t be surprised, the same thing happened one week ago in my country, precisely in the building where I used to work … No UN there, just lawyers.