[kictanet] {Disarmed} Re: Question on ICT/BPO Park

[Barrack Otieno]

Well said, i like the scriptures quoted they are very relevant to the
question and the season
Merry Christmas

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Peres Were <pwere at cascadegl.com> wrote:

> I totally agree with Ndemo. Government needs to spend on infrastructure in
> order to facilitate enterprise.
>
> Merry Christmas to all Listers!!!
>
> Peres
>
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>
> Robert,
> Let us not be too critical of ourselves.  We have indeed done good even
> with the procurement of land.  Land is an emortive issue in Kenya and any
> time the words Land and Politician appear togther, there bound to be
> controversy.  The Land we are buying was owned by 2,500 farmers.  to get
> the minds of all these people together is not easy.  We now have the Title
> and the project has started.  How come we focus mostly on the negative?
>
> Inspite of all our negativity, I love my country Kenya and its opennness
> and the growth of democratic space.  That a poor farmer can complain in
> the media and the Government responds.  This is not true in some of the
> countries you praise.  Whereas we have gone past "this is the order from
> above", some of our brothers in Africa have not and this has its cost in
> the midist of calm and perceived order.
>
> I am shocked when some contributors argue that we should be spending such
> resources on feeding Kenyans.  This is like teaching someone on how to eat
> the fish rather than how to catch it.  The Government needs to spend more
> on infrastructure to facilitate enterprise.  We allso must work to earn
> our living.  We must plan well.  For example we should not have more
> children than we can care for.  Giving birth to eleven children and hoping
> that God or our Government will help is height of stupidity.  If Jesus
> were to meet a Kenyan today, the Kenya will ask "please help me see the
> Kingdom of Heaven" yet Zachriah several years back asked Jesus "how can I
> see the Kingdom of Heaven".  Zacharia new he had some responsibility to
> this effort even thaough he had access to Jesus.  This where our problems
> lie -- taking responsibility for our actions.
>
> Merry Chrismas.
>
>
> Ndemo.
>
>
>
>
>
> > It is interesting what you find when searching the Internet, we seriously
> > need to add some information on the web.
> >
> > We are unable to sort out a basic issue like procurement of land for the
> > ICT Park, look at the following article on what our neighbour Uganda are
> > doing.  Its time we stopped thinking that the whole world is waiting for
> > us to clean our act, others are moving on.
> >
> >
>
> http://www.cio.com/article/375713/Indian_Investor_to_Build_US_200m_ICT_Park_
> in_Uganda
> >
> >
> > Robert Yawe
> >
> > KAY System Technologies Ltd
> >
> > Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> >
> > P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> >
> > Kenya
> >
> >
> >
> > Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696robertyawe%40yahoo.co.uk
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