Logic, Sarit Centre style

Logic, Sarit Centre style.

|  Email This Post | 10 comments Friday, November 3rd, 2006 at 4:22 PM

Bomb threat in Nairobi?

Edit 1: 3rd Nov 2006:

Despite it bring Nairobi to a halt I can not find a single article on the bomb scare in Nairobi this week. Not a single one! If any of you have a link please share it with us.
Hash et al. from what I can make out the police received two anonymous calls within minutes of each other claiming that there were bombs in two prominent Nairobi buildings which would go of at any time. One bomb was supposedly located in Times Tower which is the highest building in Kenya and the other was in a building somewhere near GPO, I’m not sure which one. The police responded by clearing the area which including blocking roads and the bomb squad together with their sniffer dogs combed each building. Nothing suspicious was found which lead to the phone calls being declared a hoax. The police are now trying to trace the origins of the phone calls.

I’m blogging using my mobile phone a la JKE in a car park in Nairobi city centre. Traffic is crazy which in itself not news but traffic today is extra crazy. The first indication that something was amiss was when the police started blocking access to certain roads causing long tailbacks. That also in itself is not news as roads are regularly cleared for the presidential motorcade and other VIPs. But this time the policeman one car ahead of me actually carried stone boulders and put them bang in the middle of the road to ensure that no cars went pass. Chaos. A little manoeuvring here and there and I managed to wriggle out of that fix and asked what was going on. Apparently, and this is word on the street unverified, there is a suspicious package somewhere around the GPO building which is pretty much bang in the centre of Nairobi CBD. The craziest thing is that there is no news. The radio stations even the independent FM stations are all silent, the only strange thing is that their usual detailed traffic reports have been reduced to one line. A quick check online shows no information on any of the Kenyan press websites which is remarkable as the place is crawling with journalists (and cops).
Hopefully it all will prove to be a false alarm.

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