[kictanet] Discipline & Ethics - Re: Legislation and Regulation fore-Commerce in Ken

[Mike Theuri]

One need only look at past history and realize that a Kenyan whether
resident in Kenya or not is an underdog when it comes to fairly competing
against foreign entities that have the "right connections" and "right" goes
beyond having "business connections". When official policy intentionally or
unintentionally appears to dictate that anything Kenyan led should be
relegated or ranked lower because local is not better, is the biggest single
contributing factor that has led to foreign control and ownership of key
sectors of the economy.

One need only look at India's current economic prosperity where
official policy was key in ensuring that any major player wanting to do
business in India had to engage in joint ventures with local players, the
benefit of that foresight can now be seen as some of these firms turn into
true multinationals as a result of knowledge and technology transfer while
ensuring that in the process, the wealth and long term benefits
generated remained mostly in India and not in foreign coffers.

As for the diaspora, they may have already decided to keep off due to the
lack of incentive and a guaranteed (not preferential) level playing field ,
besides remittances, can anyone mention any major investment activity in a
key national sector that a broad based diaspora led initiative has succeeded
when competing in one's own country against foreign led entities? The answer
might be found once again in official policy and approach as this brief
analysis indicates, why should one invest where they are likely to get
burned by playing their cards fairly and transparently when the policy
makers are not willing to address key issues of legitimate investor concern?


http://kenyaimagine.blogspot.com/2007/03/kimunya-attempts-to-woo-kenyan-diaspora.html


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- On Sun, 7/13/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > To certain members of this list who are either not resident
> > or have
> > not been resident in this country for some time, please be
> > cautious
> > with your statements, sometimes you might be bashing
> > someone who has
> > made huge sacrifice to serve this nation's ICT.
> >
>
> Earlier said we should not discriminate against non-Kenyans.
> Would you be asking that honest opinion now also be qualified and
> legitimized by the residency status? The Diaspora should keep off?
>
> Expanding to all society, are historical "made huge sacrifice to serve this
> nation" permanent tickets to never be questioned? To be rewarded generously
> ad infinitum?  I am avoiding cheapening the discussion.
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