[kictanet] Positive energy and the KCSE

[Alex Gakuru]

Daktari;

Eric Aligula does not reply my many emails yet your
below message attempts to make those of us terribly
keen to make public officers open and accountable
either feel wioyee for public servants or feel guilty
for asking hard questions?

At the core of the problem is simply Openness! The
funds these officers use daily and commit to
procurements and projects do not belong to them but
the public. They are paid very well to do their jobs
and when they fail to perform they should throw in the
towel or get sacked. Otherwise there would never be a
need even for this and other mailing lists to consult
public opinion and respond such as with the
(unattached) quotations;) 

Gakuru    
PS:
I know too well the amount of energy and resources
that can be committed to frustrate nonconformists.

AG
--- bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:

> Dear All,
> As we discussed the the KCSE error, Eric Aligula
> sent the quotations below
> and I think they capture the spirit in which we
> should approach such
> problems.  Often we spend more time to criticise yet
> this forum has some
> of the best minds in ICT.
> 
> "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for
> good men to do
> nothing."
> Edmund Burke
> 
> "Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious
> triumphs, even though
> checkered by failure, than to take rank with those
> poor spirits who
> neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they
> live in the gray
> twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."
> Theodore Roosevelt
> 
> In the past we have spent our collective negative
> energy to kill projects
> that could have uplifted this country out of
> poverty. For example, the
> Nyayo car.  Although there was evidence of
> corruption it is common
> knowledge that cost of any protype is usually high. 
> Our learned good men
> and women did not come out to explain the behaviour
> of variable and fixed
> costs.  The Malaysians if you read about their
> Proton were experiencing
> the same.  What saved their project was the
> benevolent dictatorship of
> their leadership.  Today the Proton is as good a car
> as any and Kenyans
> are importing it.  You learn the history of motor
> industry, Kenyan
> technicians were taken to India, Zechoslovakia and
> South Africa to teach
> them on motor assembly.
> 
> There are many projects that have come and gone
> because the good men that
> Edmund Burke is referring to are doing nothining. 
> Indeed even those in
> public offices wanting to do good for the country
> fear taking any risk
> because there is no legal insurance.  Therefore, the
> public had a
> responsibility to develop a common culture whose
> focus is to build rather
> than condem and destroy.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ndemo.
> 
> 
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