[kictanet] Who is government - for laffs

Wed Apr 27 16:08:10 EAT 2011

@Nnenna, 

thank you for the light touch. indeed we are glad everything is looking up and good again in Abidjan.

@ Brian; Pearl of Africa?  - That used to be reserved for .UG.  Unless you are saying that since they are now blocking FB and Twitter then these tag should now go to Cote D'Iivore.

walu.

--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Who is government - for laffs
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 1:14 PM

Thanks Nnenna for throwing a lighter touch onto what for many of us was a grievous situation - we pray that Cote D'Ivoire will recover quickly and resume her position as the Pearl of Africa....

Brian

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna at nnenna.org> wrote:

This is just a relief for you day:

In the last few months in Côte d'Ivoire, we have had

1. The government

2. The State.

The government were the one moving around in the country, controlling the army and the young patriots.  Simply put, Gbagbo was the government.

Alassane Ouattara, on the other hand, was the state.  He  speaks with the international community, orders international institutions and receives official correspondences that were marked "the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire".  So he was the State. Folks called it "the Republic of Golf hotel"

So workers wanted to know who was going to pay salaries! The State told us not pay taxes as yet, and the government said it needed the tax monies urgently. The government paid for December and half of February.. and ran out cash!

Then things changed: the State took over power, and the government went into what was referred to as the "republic of Bunkerkistan".

Thankfully, we now have the state and the government in one place.

Salaries have gone through and by tomorrow, we will queue up for pay!

Have a good day!

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:40:31 +0300

From: "Eng. Wainaina Mungai" <wainaina.mungai at gmail.com>

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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.

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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