[kictanet] New DG

[Joseph Manthi]

See below

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Joseph Manthi <jmanthi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In the US, the person in power appoints, and the appointee gets vetted
> by Congress,
> which has the rights to refuse such an appointment, yes? That is democracy.
> In Kenya, where noone can vet, do you still call it democracy?


That is Parliament's problem not CCK or of this forum. If the parliament
does not want to exercise its prerogative to change laws that allow it to
oversee parastatals who are to complain if appointments are skewed to one
side. The only other recourse you and I have is to make sure that we vote
the right candidate in - that is Democracy. We have a new parliament lets
hope they listen to you.

BTW: If you did not know it Dr Shem Ochuodho was an MP. Did he table a
motion to give the parliament powers to oversee appointment of CCK DGs?

I do not know


>
>
>
> > 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.
>
> So according to you, the status quo is equally good?
> Then surely, I believe you are wrongly in this list, which seeks to
> establish changes by
> coming up with policies that can see this country move to the next level!


You are reverting back to stone age arguments.

This is a political argument. I do not know the new guy, so neither do you.
And therefore you do not know his capability. Give him a chance to prove
himself. After all I am sure the full cabinet including the PM's office was
in on the appointment. Did they raise hell because of his appointment? No.
They obviously know something you or I do not.

Again - from studying places where Regulation and Deregulation has happening
- you do not need an "informatician" - whatever that is - to run an ICT
house or a regulator.

An example:
- Steve Ballmer can't write a single line of code
- Ratan Tata probably does not know what an RJ45 cable is
- To name a few

These two guys are running some of the best run ICT companies in the world

Joe

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> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
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Joseph Manthi
CEO
MEO Ltd
http://www.meoltd.com
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