There are some observations I wish to share. There is no order so bear with me.
1. I believe it was a mistake not to follow up on the Missing Students. It is simply put a dereliction of duty that poses current and future security risks. As pointed out elsewhere, these missing could be any of the following:
(a) Abductees taken away by the terrorists partly as human shields or Boko Haram like hostages
(b) Were part of an advance squad in charge of reconnaissance and preparations such as storage of arms
(c) Dead and secretly buried by Al Shabaab or GoK
(d) Fled in the dark night and have met varying fates. Could be alive or dead
(e) GUC had fake list of students to milk Funds from government
2. The Crime Scene was mishandled and evidence and intelligence wasted. How?
(a) Multiple people were allowed to enter and leave the site without any control as from information I have the scene was never cordoned off even after the terrorists had been overpowered and put out of action
(b) Civilians - in the usual police practice - were made to carry the dead on to trucks making any future trials rely on hearsay. Any terrorist pretending to be dead would have easily escaped especially if his own friends from outside volunteered to carry his body on to a red cross truck;
(c) There was no individual processing of the bodies on site and the clearing of the site seemed more urgent perhaps out of political pressure to put a stop to the crisis fast
3. The follow-up on survivors was not thorough enough.
a. Why were they bused to Nairobi with pissing stopovers where people are left alone for the sake of privacy - ladies on one side and men on the other. I am sure there were no female security forces on the buses. So a guy disguised as a woman would simply not return on the bus after a short session in the bush as is customary on those long trips
b. A high powered team should have screened each survivor. Obtain his / her bio-metrics, compare the names given and those used; Ask others to identify and confirm; Check past academic record and verify background; Go to the home and check with neighbors and do a DNA to confirm relations. I tell you if somebody got in to that college with fake documents or impersonated the sister or a dead cousin, that is the day he / she would have been caught. Any corruption and short changing that might have arisen in admissions would come to the surface. This was never done. My information is that ID cards were all that was needed to check off the name from the list provided by the GUC administration.
4. Much as this has been unpopular with Jubilee supporters, I wish to repeat that it is stupid not to follow up on discrepancies in the number of those enrolled, present and absent. If there were students absent from college during the exams period, that should raise bloody red flags. Why did they choose that time to be absent? They should have been traced urgently. As vooke pointed out at choo.com (he dropped there briefly to relieve his priestly self - what a holy stench!) there is a high possibility that most of the students came from around the college by virtue of our highly tribalized country. Add to the fact that we now know the attackers were all Kenyan and you can understand why it is no longer important to fudge and play down figures.
I have some more. Let me take a break until after some comments