[kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive

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

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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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