[kictanet] Who is government?

[Barrack Otieno]

Bob, good food for thought, you brought it out at the right time, i sat with
a senior Citizen over Easter and he mentioned the bit about the 42 Centres
of Power and how each county is erecting Cess stations for people passing
through ostensibly for road maintenance, who knows what is yet to come, i
guess this is where ICTs will play a huge role in educating the masses
otherwise we are cooked :-), i agree Sirkal is me and you that is all of us.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Eng. Wainaina Mungai <
wainaina.mungai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the timely reminder but….I am referring to the part of
> government that *collects tax *and spends it (in)/appropriately to address
> some taxpayer's concerns such as roads, etc subsidies in times of hardship
> etc.
>
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> We are all government in an extrapolated sense...but let us focus on the *net
> tax collector* rather than the net taxpayer.
>
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> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi Engineer,
>>
>> From your position who exactly is this animal called government, as
>> Kariuki Chotara once quipped "wapi huyo Karu Max anafanya watoto was
>> university kutupamawe, a shikwe na kufungwa jela" in the same breath from
>> your utterances I say "let us find this fellow called government and jail
>> him/her/it after which the price of imported petroleum will come down to 3/-
>> per litre and all Kenyans will be free".
>>
>> What the late Kariuki Chotara did not understand was what is called an ideology
>> and him I forgive, government is an ideology not a place, person or
>> principle.
>>
>> As we implement the new constitution at 3G speed I hope those of us in the
>> know are aware of the impending tsunami "when you feel the earth quake look
>> out for the tsunami" - A Japanese plaque written over 100 years ago whose
>> message was ignored by the younger more technologically savvy generation.
>>
>> We are about to create 42 centres of power each of which will want to add
>> additional levies to those currently existing ones so the 25% increase in
>> the cost of living in the urban areas will seem like a drop in the ocean.
>>  Bananas from Tanzania will pass through 3 counties each of which will want
>> to charge a levy so by the time the banana gets to you in Nairobi it will
>> definitely not cost the current 5/- worse still will be those coming from
>> Kisii.
>>
>> You and I are government so lets stop throwing stones at ourselves and use
>> our education to offer solutions to problems.  The government is like a
>> knife therefore what matters is who welds it.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> PS.  The ability to shutdown social media is an essential safety device
>> and I strongly believe needs to be put in place not having it is like
>> sending our police to apprehend armed thugs by claiming that the police
>> might use the guns to shoot innocent people.  I vote for an internet kill
>> switch just like the rest of the developed nations, do not deceive yourself
>> that the internet has no kill switch.
>>
>> Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>
>>
>>
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