[kictanet] New DG

[Shem Ochuodho]

Joe,
 
You seem to be going in cycles, and cheapening this discussion. Even after Washington's simplification, you still miss the point.
 
Did you say spectrum allocation/management is not a technical issue? Get real! And did you say 'there is no cloud hanging over his head'? In Kenya, think twice before you rush at such conclusions. The host of private communications I have received since do not support your thesis. But to pursue that route would blurr the point made.
 
Shem

--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Joseph Manthi <jmanthi at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Joseph Manthi <jmanthi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] New DG
To: "Shem Ochuodho" <shemochuodho at yahoo.com>
Cc: "New Vision List" <newvisionkenya at yahoogroups.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>, "Robert Onyango-Alai" <alai.robert at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 9:29 AM



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.



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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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