[kictanet] PS Ndemo, ECONET Scandal aand Vested Interests

Wed Oct 8 17:02:23 EAT 2008

Dear John, 

You are abviously a very angry person, shooting straight from the hip - the only redeeming quality of your anger being that on the face of it, it is inspired by a love of country. But can we keep it civil?

Indeed Kenyans should own all our strategic and fundamental infrastructure, but nothing is wrong with seeking foreign back-up on our way to that rarefied goal. I'd rather we had fully foreign-owned enterprises operating locally, employing a large number of my compatriots, paying taxes to the government, creating greater consumer utility through competition and generating auxilliary business opportunities both upstream and downstream than have no such investments, locally owned or otherwise.

And most importantly, there is no law stopping enterprising Kenyans from making future bids - WHOLLY KENYAN - for such opportunities! Like you rightly pointed out, the Safaricom IPO revealed our hunger for sound investments - what we seem to lack are inspired local entrepreneurs to harness this. We need more TransCenturies then we can effectively take on those foreign investors and competitors without need for extreme protectionist policies.

As for PS Ndemo - he is one of our best. The very fact that he is part of and an occassional contributor to this forum speaks of his belief in transparency and accountability. And personal interraction with him reinforces this impression. Please let us not pull down and drag in the mud the few really good people we have!

Fredrick Okono            
Deputy Director                           

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Maina 
  To: fredokono at cfsk.org 
  Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions ; ke-users 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [kictanet] PS Ndemo, ECONET Scandal aand Vested Interests

  Nick

  You see that its only people like you who are in Kenya not to develope Kenya but to exploit are the ones supporting Ndemo. Crooks like him. You are known and even the BPO society know you as someone who is known not to support the general development and economic improvement of thee country.

  You are known as someone who even his own staff he has consistently paid poorly. When did  Ndemo give Kenyans a chance to buy the companies and they said they couldnt? He wouldd rather go to Libya and go and make secret deals there. Am not suprised that you support him but know that no matter how long it takees. Kenyans will recover Kenya from looters like you

  JM
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  From: nicholasnesbitt <nnesbitt at kencall.com>
  To: j.maina at ymail.com
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  Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 7:13:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [kictanet] PS Ndemo, ECONET Scandal aand Vested Interests

  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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