[kictanet] PS Ndemo, ECONET Scandal aand Vested Interests

Tue Oct 7 19:34:47 EAT 2008

Again. I like honesty. I know how a real Kenyan lives, obviously there is
much you don't know about me, and I would never use a personal smear in such
a discussion. Well, then maybe you are RIGHT. If that is the mark of a
Kenyan.

I have suffered poverty and hunger in the village alongside women. I have
carried water on my head for kilometers. Every day for over a year I hiked
everywhere with my three year old daughter tied to my back in a kanga.

Sir, what is the mark of a Kenyan?

I have given everything I owned to Kenya twice. Once when I moved here and
once when I had to evacuate the post-election violence. How many would be
willing to give up everything they owned and live in poverty in a rural
village to understand Kenya?

I respect you as a professional, but you have no right to judge my
"Kenyanness" through a list forum.

Thank you.

Crystal

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:13 AM, nicholasnesbitt <nnesbitt at kencall.com>wrote:

> I agree totally.
> Sounds like someone needs to do something more productive than try to
> insinuate there is anything wrong here with Kenya becoming a more investor
> friendly and respectful environment...  Perhaps this person needs to put
> their own money where their mouth is and then they will get a very different
> perspective about how they would like their money to be used if they were to
> invest in anything substantial in Kenya...
>
> It is Econet's investors' money.  It is not Kenya's money...
>
> Do we want the investment in Kenya, the competition, the jobs, the
> participation of Essar, or do we want to play a nationalistic game based on
> rich and passively investing Kenyans getting the lion's share of someone's
> investment in Kenya, just because they are powerful and the law mandates
> that they they should have a piece of someone else's hard earned investment?
>  The wananchi wouldn't share in any Econet investment even if it were still
> required by the law to have a local partner, it would be some Mobiletea
> kinds of individuals who would slide up to Econet and scare them into
> partnering with the locals... just the same way as it always has been in
> Kenya and in such countries that adopt such market distorting and investment
> unfriendly policies...
> Bravo, Daktari Ndemo!
>
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> On Oct 7, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Crystal Watley wrote:
>
> I have known Dr. Ndemo for some time now and have found him to be nothing
> less than a man of integrity. I have seen his name drawn through the mud
> next to other politicians in the past. Let me be very honest and frank in
> this matter.
>
> When are we in Kenya going to get past this political mud slinging and look
> at the actual WORK performance of our leaders? When I watch the news I see
> very few Kenyan political leaders really working. They are always
> campaigning and pretending THAT is their job. In many cases it IS their way
> of making money, although it is NOT what we pay them for doing.
>
> Most of our political leaders do not have the ACTUAL work performance
> record of Dr. Ndemo. We know the long hours he works. I have been in his
> office at 7 am and at 7 pm. Those of us of who know him have seen this is
> the rule NOT the exception.
>
> Someday I hope in Kenya we understand we must judge everyone in public
> office by their actual work PERFORMANCE. Politicians are OUR employees. They
> work for the people of Kenya. They should be judged as an employer views an
> employee. How hard are they working for develoment? What good comes from
> their initiatives? Are they professional? Are they in the office working? We
> need to set higher standards for our government. This is not accomplished by
> breaking the good ones down.
>
> Asante sana.
>
> Crystal
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <brian at caret.net>wrote:
>
>> Smells like a smear campaign to me.
>>
>> I see nothing that Ndemo has done wrong.
>>
>> B
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2008, at 8:43 AM, John Maina wrote:
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>> > http://www.wananchiforums.com/showthread.php?p=3150#post3150
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