[kictanet] New DG

[Shem Ochuodho]

Doesn't sound any different from the statement 'Kenya has some of the best roads in the world'! Even before looking as far as Nigeria where NCC could openly defy a firm associated with a (former) Head of State, where would you fault TCRA just next door? So when a Minister can fire/transfer a CEO for 'going against the grain', and on this same space people complained - that still constitutes 'independence'? TCRA can been associated with pioneering 'converged licensing', UCC for pioneering USAF/RCDF, and RURA for pioneering Resource Sharing Framework. What should we credit/associate CCK with? 
 
Best rgrds,
Shem

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Brian Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Brian Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] New DG
To: "Shem Ochuodho" <shemochuodho at yahoo.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 7:54 AM



Bw Wafula,

I can assure you - after many years of working with regulators and operators across all of Africa Kenya has the most independent, proffesional and focused regulatory authority.

Take a look at South Africa - capture - spells out what ICASA has been under since inception

What country can you point to that has the levels of independence and autonomy that CCK has.

Brian


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM, joseph wafula <muliaro at yahoo.com> wrote:






 
I congratulate Mr Njoroge for the appointment as DG for CCK, however I still find the criteria used weak if what was in last Saturday Nation newspaper was part of the criteria. What is clear is that we are far from expecting CCK to meet WTO expectation of an independent regulator. CCK is strongly under what I term "political capture".  The issue of salary one earns as a prerequisite for short-listing for the post makes it even worse in my view. What is the future for such criteria in the eyes of all stakeholders particularly those in private sector, Foregn Direct Investors etc? the question is, how can such officer be free from government influence and special interest? Perhaps the criteria of appointment need to be revised to give an independent outfit and sectoral professionalsm to CCK DG position.   
 
Dr Muliaro Wafula
Lecturer JKUAT & Director 
Kenya E-governance and E-Content Backbone
 



      
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