One of my
favourite quotes is, ‘when placed in command, take charge’. As a general, these
words by General Norman Schwarzkopf are the harbinger for decision making in
the military.
I was appointed
the Chief of Defence Forces at a time when constitutional rights were fast gaining
momentum and it spelt doom for the army.
To fill up the
Somalia war losses, the Kenya Defence Forces embarked on a massive recruitment.
The recruits came into the army with notions of fairness, human rights, and
honour. In fact, they were as problematic as the general public with their constitutional
rights and anti-war sentiment. Each soldier wanted to be treated fairly, to be
respected, to work eight-to-four o’clock shifts, and to be given time to do
part-time studies to better themselves. Disobedience to orders became the order
of the day, no more ‘point and click’ soldiers, no more doing without asking questions.
We resorted to hiring private security agencies to guard our barracks.
Somewhere along
the way we had gone wrong. The training was not what it used to be in the days
of yore when brainwashing the recruits with loyalty and patriotism worked. We
produced soldiers and officers who were cry-babies and sissies, rank and file
whose being in the army was inspired by action movies and Jason Bourne and Jack
Bauer characters.
In all my years
in the service I had never wanted to lead an army with no discipline, soldiers
who questioned orders, and blatant disregard of the chain of command. When I
took over the mantle, I decided to take charge.
It did not work
as many soldiers and junior officers were relatives of senior officers. The
army was a conglomerate of family dynasties and political empires. But with
like-minded officers we brought glory to the army.
The Defence
Forces Memorial Hospital pharmacologists together with the Kenya Medical
Research Institute (KEMRI) developed a drug that could manipulate the soldiers
and officers. With an army of over 300,000 personnel in active service, we had
enough human guinea pigs to test the drug.
Myrianophyl was
a mind control and memory erasure drug that made the soldiers kinda robotic,
the point-and-click army that I had envisioned.
All the 100
medical reception stations in all military camps stocked Myrianophyl. Then, the food prepared in the barracks was poisoned
to create an epidemic crisis for soldiers to flock the medical reception
stations. Alongside treatment, medics administered Myrianophyl.
In addition,
each soldier and junior officer was implanted with a microchip at the back of
their necks. Before anyone smelt a rat of what was happening and started asking
questions why there was an increase in surgery cases in the army, doctors devised
a way to secretly implant the microchips.
Moreover, the
KDF Research & Development (R&D) Department developed a device that
could beam words into the soldiers’ skulls wherever they were in the country. The
device was embedded in CCTV cameras around the camps and in offices, radio
communication systems, and repeater stations all over the country. The devices’
transmissions could be heard like the spoken word once the microchip was
activated, except that it could only be heard within the individual soldier’s
head.
We had control
of the soldiers to the point where they did our bidding against their will and
even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation. That’s what
Lord Montgomery meant when he said that ‘an
army is a fighting weapon moulded by discipline and controlled by leaders; the
essence of the army is discipline’.
Every soldier
and junior officer in the army obeyed orders for even the most unconscionable
acts. They were less men than weapons on legs, as robotized as it is possible
for a human to be and still breathe. Under my command and leadership, military
discipline was top notch and I did not care should the soldier’s consciences
ever return they would end up with post-traumatic stress disorder and likely
shattered and drunk old men. We needed unquestioned obedience from the soldiers
and to hell with the consequences.
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