[kictanet] 3 Media houses protest Majanja's Digital Migration Ruling

[Matunda Nyanchama]

Friends

Happy Holidays.

This is an interesting debate, but one which I feel should be beyond digital migration and to that of how we deal with national resources.

In Canada, for instance, there are industries (banking & finance, telecoms, energy, etc.) that have been designated to be of strategic national interest; and which need to have majority control exercised by Canadians. The regulators also impose conditions on any sales, mergers, acquisitions, etc. of the same, especially where foreign interests come in to assure adherence to the national interest.

And that isn't about a controlled economy! It is a balancing of factors that would maximize gain for what is naturally the nation's for the benefit of its citizens.

I think the challenge for us Kenyans is that "national interest" appears non-existent in our vocabulary; and worsened by the mindset/practice/tradition of  "you eat where you work", damn the consequences for the nation and its future.

But we also love brinkmanship rather than consensus. Perhaps if we acted more within a framework of "collective good" based on "national interest", we would favour consensus more.

What would happen if a local consortium had won, but later on decided to
>sell to the Chinese?
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>The controlled economy we are advocating here usually works to the
>detriment of the citizen, like our sugar industry does.
Happy Holidays!
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