[kictanet] Posta Kenya closes 56 outlets

[Gilda Odera]

Dr. Ndemo,

I hear you....to undertake a proper re-structuring one needs political goodwill. You cannot do it on your own will. I think the key question here is that while we wait for political goodwill, what strategies need to be implemented to start generating more revenues for this organisation to keep it afloat even as the Executive and Parliament is persuaded to start a restructuring program.? This entity needs such a person who is very dynamic. Who and where is this person? They need to start like yesterday.
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And Robert, be fair...stop calling people clueless.

Regards,

Gilda Odera

On Apr 22, 2013, at 7:34 PM, "Bitange Ndemo" <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Robert,
> I am not clueless as you may think.  We have done restructuring proposals
> to Cabinet before but one needs approval to proceed.  You recall the
> problem we went through Telkom.  We had to retrench more than 16,000
> employees.  There were only 400 graduates in a staff compliment of 19,000.
> Posta is in even a worse situation.  With a staff compliment of close to
> 6,000, you need in excess of 8 billion to retrench.  You do not undertake
> such drastic moves without political will.  In my view you are being
> simplistic on this issue.  We shall take many years to sought out the mess
> created during KPTC time.
> 
> This however is not an excuse not to do anything.  There are reforms going
> on albeit slowly.  You will need serious support from both the executive
> and parliament to implement sustainable interventions.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ndemo.
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi Edith,
>> 
>> It is interesting that you bring this up as it goes back to the key issue
>> here that we in ICT have absolutely no understanding or appreciation of
>> how relevant PSK is to delivering e-commerce and until that happens the
>> organisation will continue on a down hill spiral finally embedding itself
>> in the ground.
>> 
>> What is even worse is that Dr. Ndemo is even more clueless than the
>> current PMG about the relevance if PSK in delivering e-commerce solutions
>> which is clear from their statements about how email is replacing the
>> services offered by the postal service which cannot be any further from
>> the truth. 
>> 
>> I always ask, once I have ordered a pair of shoes online and made the
>> payment electronically exactly how does the shoe get to me? Until 3D
>> printers becoming cheaper than a DVD player there is only one answer to