[kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive

Betty Mwangi bmwangi1 at Safaricom.co.ke
Sat Mar 5 07:38:53 EAT 2011


Thanks Solomon

Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience

Rgds

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:04 PM, "Solomon Mburu Kamau" <solo.mburu at gmail.com> wrote:

> The service has been unaivalable for most of today, and especially
> after last weekend's upgrade of the system.
> Hope the technicians are springing into action, as google would say.
> 
> ION, I remember MJ saying that he's subscribed Collymore to this list,
> but I've not seen him comment on some of the raised issues onlist. I
> wonder whether this is the cause of Robert's sentiments.
> 
> On 04/03/2011, Njeri <njeri.rionge at igniteconsulting.co.ke> wrote:
> > I wanted to load 40k last week and was only able to do so by going to
> > three outlets, then sending it was another issue, not to mention some
> > told me mkesho is now mkesho kutwa. :-)
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone.
> >
> > Njeri
> >
> > www.njeri-rionge.com
> >
> > On Mar 4, 2011, at 18:22, Michael Bullut <michael.bullut at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The MPesa service is currently down... I tried depositing some funds
> >> an hour ago at two agents in Westlands and they told me the system
> >> is unavailable...
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Michael Ouma <benomnta at yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment.
> >>
> >> I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another
> >> number via the same mpesa since last week.
> >>
> >> Michael Ouma
> >> Journalist
> >> Kenya
> >> Tel:+254-725-537823
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no
> >> path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson
> >>
> >>
> >> From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> >> To: benomnta at yahoo.com
> >> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> >> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM
> >> Subject: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
> >>
> >> Hi Listers,
> >>
> >> I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench
> >> interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening
> >> especially from how he answered the questions.
> >>
> >> For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a
> >> script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni
> >> was more punchy.
> >>
> >> As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still
> >> not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have
> >> been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage,
> >> he needs a chance to arrive.
> >>
> >> I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's
> >> preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non-
> >> safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in
> >> Kenyanism.  After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a
> >> soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better
> >> placed to comment on the Kenyan.  He might even be allowed to get
> >> aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
> >>
> >> Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing
> >> ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very
> >> deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what
> >> is happening on the ground.
> >>
> >> If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move
> >> the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory
> >> tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his
> >> stay shall be short and uneventful.  You cannot appreciate the
> >> bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the
> >> pixels make the picture.
> >>
> >> Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that
> >> where rolled towards him.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
> >>
> >>
> >> Robert Yawe
> >> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> >> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> >> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> >> Kenya
> >>
> >> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >> Michael Bullut.
> >>
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