[Kictanet] [Fibre-for-africa] Whats i have being talking of asa public private partnership in ownership of the criticalinfrastructur

[Eric Osiakwan]

Muriuki,

You sound like the angel who went to the sheperds in the field to  
annouce the birth of the Saviour, Jesus. The other day Brian Longwe  
had a new baby and when i heard the message, the memory was same.....:-)

  Like the three wisemen i would be guirding my lions to come and see  
the manisfestation of what you have sounded below in 2007 and 2008.

On a more serious note, we would have to give the Kenyan  
administration all the support to make this a reality.

Am working with some colleagues on the pricing/costing of the cables  
and we would be out soon.

More later.


On 28 Nov 2006, at 19:59, Muriuki Mureithi wrote:

> Hi Eric
>
> The Kenya money market is on a bull run and the  tragedy of African  
> lakes is long forgotten in the rush  make money in the  NSE. The  
> government has advertised for a lead financial arranger and the EOI  
> was closing on Nov 8 to package local funding for TEAMs. To raise  
> the USD80 M is a done deal. Note also that the three East African  
> stock markets have now partnered to cross list shares – thus it  
> will be easy to raise cash for Teams across the region
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> The sweeter part is that the government is tendering for close to  
> 4300 Km of fibre to go deep into the villages. EOI closes on Dec 15th
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>  With 2+1 submarine fibres,  3000 km national backbone fibre , 4300  
> km rural fibre , 500 km metropolitan rings  in under  20 months –  
> Kenya will be the most lighted country in SSA outside South  
> Africa!!  A leap of faith after the dark days of monopoly
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> Cheers
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> Muriuki Mureithi
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> bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke at kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf  
> Of Eric Osiakwan
> Sent: 28 November 2006 13:49
> To: mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke
> Cc: Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet; Discuss at afrispa.org
> Subject: Re: [Kictanet] [Fibre-for-africa] Whats i have being  
> talking of asa public private partnership in ownership of the  
> criticalinfrastructur
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> Bill, thanks for the information and links - much appreciated.
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> It means that either TEAMS or EASSy has a big opportunity to change  
> the story and status of technology stocks - another hsitoric  
> dimension to the whole excercise.
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> May be Safaricom or TK or Wananchi would do it first but the  
> important principle is not who makes it first but we must be sure  
> it is DONE WELL and sets a precedent for others to follow.
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> Eric here
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> On 28 Nov 2006, at 16:13, Bill Kagai wrote:
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> On 11/28/06, Eric Osiakwan <eric at afrispa.org> wrote:
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> Was African Lakes on NSE as well or only on LSE?
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> Yeah.
> African Lakes was cross-listed at the NSE in March 2000 and was  
> branded as the first Kenyan IPO but did not live to expectations.
> The company issued 4 million shares at Kshs 94.50 each and as a  
> result secured a secondary listing in the NSE. See http:// 
> www.nse.co.ke/History.htm
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> The company then tried raising extra equity but that did not stop  
> its demise leaving the 'technology companies' seriously  
> contemplating the next direction to take in the stock market. See  
> Issue No. 157 on balancing act. http://www.balancingact-africa.com/ 
> news/back/balancing-act_157.html
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> We now have Safaricom, Telkom (K) and Wananchi having indicated to  
> test the waters soon.
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