[kictanet] New DG

[Joseph Manthi]

Washington:
The appointment of a DG, as I said, is political. This we have to live with.
Instead of Shem giving the guy a chance to fail, he automatically starts
complaining about what criteria was used to appoint him after failing to be
considered. What does that tell you about Shem?

All I am saying is that anyone in his right mind would not hire someone who
has been accused of gross mismanagement of a very high profile parastatal.
And therefore complaining of the DG's appointment using such flimsy reasons
as that he is not an "informatician" - whatever that means - lends itself to
questions about impropriety.

The DG is a manager, he is not a technician. Now if he was appointed to
discuss original thoughts about technical issues then we would have a
problem. In every country I know Spectrum allocation is an economic issue
and not a technical one. In this case the DG - if that is the criteria under
contention - is more qualified in my book than Shem. Further there is no
cloud hunging over his head.

Joe

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Joseph Manthi <jmanthi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Shem:
> > This is the one in which you must declare your interest. This sounds to
> me
> > as a question of "rotten eggs". From where I am standing it sounds like
> you
> > are bitter because you were never considered. But let me remind you that
> in
> > the very short past you were senior official of a government parastatal.
> The
> > minister in charge - or whoever - considered it a National Duty to fire
> you
> > and proceed to prosecute you for mismanagement. The case - as you are
> likely
> > to say - has not been settled.
> >
> > It would really be a case of bad governance for anyone to consider you
> for a
> > senior position when you "failed" in the last one the government trusted
> you
> > with. The days of Kenyatta and Moi moving their people from one position
> to
> > another - raping these parastatals as they go - are dying if not dead.
> >
> > It is good to see that the Government has appointed someone with a clean
> -
> > unless I am mistaken - record to this most important jobs. I personally
> do
> > not care who you are as long as you can do your job. The Dir of CCK does
> not
> > have to be an engineer he can be whoever he wants to be as long as he
> > manages CCK as it should managed - to the benefit of the mwananchi. In
> the
> > US, the FCC in most times has been headed by lawyers not by communication
> > engineers. If he can manage the process of moving this industry forward,
> I
> > say, more power to him.
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> I think you lost missed the point Dr. Shem was trying to put across. I
> can summarize what he said as follows:
>
> 1. Appointments in KE are still skewed towards certain considerations
> which we hoped had been shelved.
> 2. It's more appropriate to have an informatician, as opposed to an
> economist, lead an organization like CCK.
>
> He did not say anything like it should be led by Dr. Shem Ochuodho.
> As regards the court cases, doesn't it still hold true that you are
> innocent until proved guilty?
>
> Your response to Dr. Ochuodho was not objective, but personal.
> I hold it that getting personal never addresses the issues.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254733744121/+254722743223
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>  --from a /. post
>



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Joseph Manthi
CEO
MEO Ltd
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