[kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> It is saddening to see how Postal Corporation is treated as a dumping
> ground for retired civil servants turning it into a sedated giant being
> denied the opportunity to play its rightful role in levelling the  playing
> field.
>
> Many of us think that just because we rarely receive snail mail that it
> serves no purposes, we write articles and make statements of how email and
> instant messaging are the final nail in the coffin of Posta but I ask after
> your order the pair of shoes online and pay via mpesa or mkesha how do you
> expect to receive the shoes? SMS, email, or IM.
>
> I believe that we are doing a disservice to the country by killing Posta
> and someone needs to stand up and put Posta back to where it belongs as the
> enabler for e-commerce, e-learning, narrower of the digital divide and
> governance.
>
> I therefore offer myself as a candidate for Post Master General of Postal
> Corporation of Kenya.
>

Hi Robert,

Over the weekend (on Sunday), I needed to call KPLC Call Centre. This was
prompted by the incidence of having been without Electricity from Friday to
Sunday. To call the KPLC call centre, they always require you to specify
your account number, which prompted me to retrieve on my electricity bills
for reference. Guess what I saw on the bill?? on the top right hand corner
was a stamp (sort of) reading "Kenya Postage Paid" (or something close). So
I asked myself the question: If KPLC has to post electricity bills every
month to all it's customers, how much revenue does that translate into for
what I'd love to call KPTC (sic)?? There are so many entities that use
Posta, like KRA, and all those organizations which still insist on snail
mail. So there is still need to retain Posta for it's services. Even in the
developed world (US, UK, etc) they still use Postal services. If anyone
wants to "kill" Posta, then I must ask why?
Posta is probably just killing itself. Ineptitude, inefficiency,
unreliability. There was a point in time when no one trusted their mail
would get to the destination when dispatched via KPTC. When it was
transformed to Posta, things seemed to "want to change", but they did not
quite - not as much as expected. By the time this was happening, several
courier companies had been formed, and "licensed". I don't know who did
this, but what comes to mind is that someone saw a void that needed to be
filled. Posta was becoming irrelevant, if you get what I mean, because this
was their service being taken away from them. There are historical reasons
behind Posta's poor service delivery, the most outstanding being corruption.
Now corruption in Kenya is facing its waterloo, because of the new katiba.
Maybe now is the time to have Posta being run professionally as a business
outfit, not as a govt dumping ground for civil service rejects and political
cronies.
I have a feeling you can turn Post around, but where do we start?

Is Posta under the docket of Dr. Bitange Ndemo? Perhaps he can tell us if he
has any plans of turning Posta around. Posta, like our Police Service needs
reforms, and that has to start with staff attitude and behavior. Do you know
how Posta recruits those staff who serve at the counters? I swear I've never
seen any adverts for such positions all my life. New blood needs to be
injected into Posta to make in functional. If you feel you can do this, then
why not? Major General Ali can be given a diplomatic assignment so that you
take over at the helm of Posta. We'll give you two years from the date of
your appointment to show us what you have achieved, or show cause why you
shouldn't be either taken to court (depending) or be shown the door.


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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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Damn!!
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