[kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality

Wed Aug 17 16:43:29 EAT 2011

Thank you Yawe for providing the definition. It is just hilarious!

However, you raise an important point on our inability to put content in a searchable format. Maybe we will need to take this discussion further after the 'campaign period'.

Rgds
Grace 

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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:47:16 +0100
From: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke

Hi Grace,

KBF is a term given to us by our wise and insightful current President that in full is "KuBaFu"

Definition has given by the other old wise man, Hon. Michuki
Kubafu ni mtu ambaye anajua kile anahitajiwa kufanya lakini anakataa
A Kubafu is one who knows what they need or are supposed to do but refuse to do so

This definition has been given previously in this forum but as we are unable to put content on the web in a searchable format which is why you could not get it when you searched on Google.

Regards

Coast Politician: Rais sisi watu wa pwani tuko nyuma yako
President Kenyatta:  Laa, sitaki watu nyuma yangu, nataka tusonge mbele bega kwa bega
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
Sent: Wed, 17 August, 2011 10:51:45
Subject: RE: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality

Yawe
What is a KBF? 

Rgds
GG

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If you have the strength to survive, you have the power to succeed. Life is all about choices we make depending upon the situation we are in. Go forth and rule the World!

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:03:18 +0100
From: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality
CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com

Hi Daktari,

Unless you are the first born in your mothers home then you and I started the 100 meter race 100 meters before the starting point but yet you will find that you must have overtaken those who started before you for a number of reasons some of which are;

1.  Their position was not by their own efforts but a matter of chance and they are used to being pushed, those behind have a tendency to be self propelled
2.  Late starters have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of those ahead, unless one is a KBF
3.  The trail blazers flatten the grass allowing those behind to make faster progress
4.  While your elder siblings might have walked 5 kilometres to school you most like only walked 3 kilometres because they carried you the last 2.

There are many benefits to lagging into new territories which is why in our implementation of the technology cities and parks we needs to be better than those of Egypt, India and South Africa unfortunately we seem to have the "also ran" mentality instead of applying the principle of best practice and innovation.

On the Konza design I mentioned to you that one of the biggest issues that Silicon Valley suffers today is excessive tarmac which leads to too much motorised traffic which apart from causing traffics produces a lot of lead which affects the brain and by extension the ability to be creative.  Even with the benefit of hind site Konza's designers refuse to learn from those who went before.  

As the face and engine of this monumental project that the president will be breaking ground to in September are you doing to incorporate best practices from within and elsewhere?

On the issue of fish in the lake we need to realise that the dependence on faith and heavenly intervention to feed us must come to a sudden and abrupt end.  You either feed the fish or go hungry, we need to stop thinking like hunters and gatherers and take responsibility for our food security .  

My maternal grandfather was one of the first people to dig a bore hole in the district sometime in the late 60's and was, like I have been, laughed off as the village madman it is only today that the neighbours appreciate what he did.  In those days there was no need to dig a bore hole because the rains where predictable, the rivers where clean and accessible, the population was small and the walk to the river was short.

A number of years later the short route to the river was grabbed as is traditional and those who had no direct river access like my grand parents neighbours had to walk a longer distance.  The bore hole spared my grandmother the long walk but unfortunately also made my mothers siblings lazy.  

I leave you to decide what the moral of the story is, might just have been a chance for me to brag about my intelligent grand father or was it?

Data collected from the development of fish farming in Central Province County is that they will be the largest producers of fish by the year 2015 at which time the tri-citizenship fish in Lake Victory will either have been exhausted or the lake will have died from pollution.  

Then bwana president how will you deal with the issue of no fish in lake victoria come 2015, or shall we wait for famine and malnutrition to fester in the region so that we can then cry on national TV and hope it will resolve the issue?

In closing, since the discussion has been extended would you rather we continue with this discussion on the same threat or spin it off seperately?  I prefer a separate threat has it gives me an opportunity to see how many discussions you can keep on the front banner.

Regards 
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 

From: "bitange at jambo.co.ke" <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
Sent: Tue, 16 August, 2011 21:10:27
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Xenophobia

Harry,
Examine Robert's logic through his metaphor of how long a cow takes to die out of hunger.  If he meant that we should have seen it coming then he is a master of contradiction.

What is happening around Lake Victoria must be stopped.  If indeed this were businessmen, then they need not spend money to silencing politicians. Infact some politicians speak like Robert.  "Our people are lazy".  This is a grave matter.  We cannot fight poverty by telling our people to compete in a 200 meter race when the vistors are starting at 100 meter spot (Capital unlimited) and we cannot vouch on the sources of their immense financial strength.

The impact of excess liquidity in the market affects everyone through inflation and inflated property prices as well as rent.  You do not need an economist to tell you this.

I do not blame Robert's puritanical reaction.  This is typical of us when we fail to look at a global picture.  If it wasn't the fact that the official "campaign" is over I would have spent more time on the economic implications of the issue at hand.

Ndemo.

Sent from my BlackBerry®

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