[kictanet] Should Kenya bite the bullet and roll back the Telkom Kenya Privatisation?

[Badru Ntege]

Is there no third alternative.  Do we really want to say that the only option is to kick them out ??

Are we sure they are the only party at fault ?

Badru Ntege
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On 14 Nov 2013, at 11:36, "Mark Mwangi" <mwangy at gmail.com<mailto:mwangy at gmail.com>> wrote:

I am also of the idea that we kick them out. They are probably after getting 100 % ownership tat way 100 % profits can flow back o the mothership. Just have a look at how the French operate in West Africa to get a clue. Kicking Orange out will not result in collapse of our economy whether it is by direct investment or tourist no.s.

Its becoming rather ridiculous and I dont think ceding control to them is an option.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi at at.co.ke<mailto:ngigi at at.co.ke>> wrote:
Has Kenya really gotten anything from that Telkom deal? Orange has no real plans for the Kenyan market, and worse the management teams they recommend over are either totally incompetent or really don't care about the state of Telkom Kenya.

What options do we have?
1. Let it go... Simply pull out. Cut our losses and ran. Indicate to Orange we will not make anymore investment if we are not in-charge of it. If this whittles down our shareholding to 0, so be it. Sometime though, I feel as if this is exactly what Orange wants, then they can revive it nicely.
2. Kick them out. They simply have failed to deliver, then rebuild Telkom as a Kenyan Parastatal that leads in technology and innovation and ofcourse support it with certain preferences and especially so in Government jobs and build a local 'M-Pesa' that is then used to make most of these government transactions that we're supposed to be onto by 1st April 2014 (Could it be an April fools joke bytway???)

Waithaka Ngigi
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke<mailto:ali at hussein.me.ke>> wrote:
Listers

By all intents and purposes this privatisation has not worked. Maybe we should go the Rwanda way and roll back the dice...

http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Treasury-ignored-AG-advice-on-Telkom-deal/-/996/2072052/-/t06mrw/-/index.html

Lessons learnt?

Ali Hussein

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