[kictanet] New DG

[Joseph Manthi]

Washington:
I am not being personal, everything I have stated here is either what Shem
has said himself and what is in public record. One thing about democracy is
that the person in power appoints his people. When that person is off power,
all his people are replace with those of the new "presidents" political
persuasion. I do not see what you guys are whining about.

Under the circumstances, the current leadership would have appointed a
village idiot to run CCK because according to them the idiot was qualified
and there would have been nothing wrong with that. You are listening way too
much to the WB/IFC to be of any good to the country. This guy has worked in
CCK - as someone else has stated. He probably knows more about deregulation
and ICT than 90% of the subscribers to this list - me and Shem included -
because deregulation is an economic concept. I expect him to lead the CCK
into the right direction.

Having some ICT knowledge does not make you a good Regulator Manager. The
problem with people complaining too much is that their audience stops
listening.

Give the guy a chance and stop whining about who should and who should not
have been appointed.

And thats my last 2 cents

JOe

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Joseph Manthi <jmanthi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> He did not whine about having failed to be considered. I'd still like
> to stand by the
> summary I gave of how I understood him.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Accused. That's the point. He's not convicted as yet, though in your mind
> you've
> done just that - convicted him!
>
>
> > 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.
>
> "informatician" - I did not look it up from any dictionary, but the
> way I saw it,
> anyone on this list would easily know what he meant from the context. How
> comes you don't?
> Anway, I personally do agree with his "flimsy" reasons, since I'd have
> loved to
> see someone with the "relevant industry" qualifications (as opposed to
> "relevant political"
> qualifications) being appointed to such a position. Political
> considerations for appointments
> should have been shelved looong time. IIRC, there was strong
> proposition sometimes back
> for such appointments to be vetted by parliament. How this became a
> cropper is so clear
> in my mind, but is OT for this list so I will not delve into it.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> You miss the point once again! The manager, without having clear and
> better understanding
> of what the "technician" is talking about, will always swing towards
> the whims of his/her
> political masters, the technicians best-interests notwithstanding.
> I'd hate to try to make an economist officiate on ICT-related issues
> which have no bias towards
> economics (and that would be shallow anyway). If you were appointed to
> be the CEO of a
> Kenyatta national Hospital and you aren't a doctor by profession,
> guess where the hospital would
> be headed?
> In summary, Dr. Ochuodho strong proposition was to have
> industry-related qualifications considered
> for such appointments, not political.
>
>
> > In every country I know Spectrum allocation is an economic issue and not
> a technical one.
>
> A very simple case that I know of: Sometimes back, FM stations in
> Nairobi were ordered by CCK to
> have their transmitters moved from where they were installed initially
> to Limuru, because there were
> so much frequency interference. Some stations even jammed their
> competitors. I don't want to indulge
> further into this, but I think the initial decision to let the
> transmitters be installed was approved by the "manager".
>
> > In this case the DG - if that is the criteria under contention - is more
> qualified in my book than Shem.
>
> What Dr. Shem (let me be fair to his rightly earned titles as well)
> inferred was simply "to have doctors run hospitals".
> I did not see (or maybe I was selective in my reading) anywhere where
> he cast aspersions on the person of the DG.
>
> > Further there is no cloud hunging over his head.
>
> I maintain that such cloud is none of our business in this forum. Why
> don't you stay focused on the issues
> relevant to the subject, than getting personal?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254733744121/+254722743223
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>



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Joseph Manthi
CEO
MEO Ltd
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