[kictanet] [Skunkworks] <OT> : No Electricity, No Fuel, No Cooking gas! I need my hot coffee or need some answers.....

[Harry Delano]

When looked at from a different angle, it seriously begs question what the
energy regulatory body's role is in 

ensuring energy efficiency for the nation besides price hikes on
Electricity, Petroleum products etc, almost 

at every turn..

 

The pertinent question is, does the ERC's overall role have the consumer at
heart? So far from what we have 

seen, no one is sure.

 

Who has oversight on regulatory bodies..

 

Harry

 

From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of warigia bowman
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 1:14 PM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTANet
Subject: Re: [kictanet] [Skunkworks] <OT> : No Electricity, No Fuel, No
Cooking gas! I need my hot coffee or need some answers.....

 

Under basic economic analysis, it makes more sense for government to run
utilities that the private sector. They should be run based on rate of
return regulation. 

Even the smallest, most pathetic town in the US manages their utilities
better than Nairobi. 

The utilities were put under private sector control during the world bank
frenzy for liberalization in the late 1990s. 

I am so sorry you are suffering like this. 

I find no electricity and no water nearly unbearable. Reminds me of my time
working at Kabarak University. 

WMB 

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:06 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

At some point we did not want government in the management of utilities.  We
wanted private sector.  So fuel, gas and power became privatized.  I have
not had power for the past two weeks.  The small generator I have cannot
sustain the energy requirements for my consumption.  That is why I advocate
for more energy production.  This will force KPLC to begin seriously to
market the power and make customers happy.  In the absence of excess power
they become complacent and guard profits.

As for private sector in Kenya, we have problems.  We cannot complain about
the Government and private sector in the same sentence.  It means we have
all failed.  We must accept this if we need change.  If government had
issued the titles, the master file would have been changed.  It was not even
as unscrupulous people fleeced fellow Kenyans.   When tenders are given to
foreign companies we complain that local companies are discriminated.  These
locals have no morals and no shame.

Let us admit that we have all failed and seek divine intervention.  Let us
embrace a value system that ostracizes those who go against the norms.  Even
the most corrupt have the audacity to point fingers at government and we
listen to them as we do with saints.  We must have the courage to remind
such people where they acquired their wealth from.  We are just about to go
to elections when practically every candidate cannot explain the source of
their wealth.  Do you really expect change from such rot?

Ndemo.

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