[kictanet] [ke-internetusers] Re: PS Ndemo, ECONET Scandal aand Vested Interests

[mwananchi at hushmail.com]

Very good questions indeed, except that these are some of the very 
same questions in the inverse PS Ndemo has dodged answering in full 
regarding the foreigners he has been meeting with behind closed 
doors. 

Who are these mysterious foreigners, are they the British Telecom's 
of this world or arm twisting fraudsters operating out of Dubai, 
Zimbabwe and Guernsey Islands? 

As PS Ndemo says there should be nothing to hide, if BT wants to 
come to Kenya they should publicly do so. If they want changes, 
they can demand changes in investment policy openly through press 
conferences and vocal diplomats and not secretly in PS Ndemo's 
office out of public eye sight and ear shot if they have nothing to 
be afraid of.

Logic demands that questions are not answered with evasive 
questions more so from public servants. That is obsolete reasoning 
that belonged to yesteryears gone by. 

Kenyans should never agree to return to the down trodden eras where 
accountability and transparency did not exist in public servants 
books. 

Gone are the days when public servants could do as they pleased and 
contemptuously remark "so what?" 

Kenyan citizens do not have to account to anybody for demanding 
that public servants account for and carry out their duties 
responsibly. 

Responsible Kenyans should never apologise to anyone for asking 
public servants to account for their actions. Any individual who 
maliciously furthers the interests of foreigners while ignoring 
those of Kenyans does not deserve to be in public office. 

The Kenyan taxpayer does not spend their hard earned money to pay 
public servants so they can turn around, forget about Kenyans and 
promote foreign interests. 

It is disheartening to see some Kenyans 45 years after independence 
seemingly paralysed by a form of inferiority complex. These are the 
parties who believe that Kenyans or Africans are incapable and that 
foreign not indigenous is always better. It can hoped for in prayer 
that they are one day cured of this backward African disease that 
prevents us from collectively moving forward.

If a public servant cannot protect and uphold Kenyans interests 
then they should leave those offices to responsible Kenyans who 
can. 

Individuals who embrace foreigners more than they embrace their own 
nation should perhaps be seeking public office in foreign lands not 
the Kenya their actions will retrogress. Anyone who is tired of 
Kenyans standing up for their rights is obviously free to renounce 
their citizenship and depart to foreign lands.

A Kenyan need not have any other motive other than that of acting 
as a true Mwananchi when holding public servants and political 
appointees to account for their actions.  

Again, what list of policies and activities has PS Ndemo conducted 
to promote the ability of Kenyans to own and increase significant 
local shareholding in significant ICT enterprises before beginning 
to champion the cause of foreigners?  

Peterson

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:42:01 +0000 aki <aki275 at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
>Dear Dr Ndemo and all,
>
>I beg to differ with the point raised so far. My opinion as a 
>techie much
>lower in the food chain, we deal with logics. And the logic so far 
>is as
>follows, which makes its even more interesting and since no one is 
>mixing
>words, actually bordering on the egde of a conspiracy.... but I'll 
>leave the
>strong words and chain of events for you all to figure out.
>
>It seems the bone of contention is the local share holdings 
>portion but
>seems from the emails there are other agendas involved, including 
>justifying
>" nationalism".
>
>So lets raise the questions, regarding the percentage of local 
>ownership
>shareholdings in telco sector :
>
>1) Why is this such a problem and to whom?
>
>2) What lack of benefits will result from a 100% owned telcos and 
>to whom?
>
>3) What kenyas will suffer from the lack of ownership  in such 
>telcos?
>
>4) Who are these kenyans who want to be part of the telcos and for 
>some
>reason are going to be stopped ?
>
>5) Where is the money coming from, for kenyans to own shares in 
>the telco
>sectors?
>
>In a nutshell, it is becoming clear that some are going to feel 
>the pinch of
>a complete open market and will use tactics like corruption, name 
>calling
>and  etc to try and stop the messenger ( Bwana PS ) from 
>implementing the
>necessary changes.
>
>I short, I suspect there is something much much bigger going on 
>here. I hope
>someone with an insight into this will open up the entire story 
>and LAY IT
>BARE.
>
>If you need to ban me from this list then go ahead, I'm getting 
>bored with
>the one way traffic from the so called protectors of kenyan 
>interests. Who
>are they? What interests do they have?
>
>Rgds.

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