[kictanet] Justification for wayleave charges

Adam Nelson adam at varud.com
Mon Jan 20 15:05:21 EAT 2014


Robert,

I think we all agree that the government needs to get on top of this stuff
and that groups doing the digging should pay appropriately for the permits
and oversight.  I still think that the federal government doesn't really
have the focus on local roads needed to affect change the way that the
local governments do ... and now with a devolved constitution, local
governments actually have the power to affect change here.

While it would be great for anybody to do anything, it would be ideal to
start getting the county governments involved in this stuff - keeping in
mind the primacy clause which should still allow the federal government to
compel county governments to give right of way for communications lines in
the case of reluctant local bureaucrats.

-Adam

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Adam,
>
> This has absolutely nothing to do with road quality, the issue here is
> that someone cut across a perfectly good road to lay a commercial service
> and did not make good after they where through.
>
> If this is what will keep being done I fully understand why Dr. Ndemo's
> directive when he was permanent secretary to the various councils to weave
> wayleave charges for those companies laying fibre was ignored.
>
> I expect that Safaricom and it's contractor will repair the damaged road
> soon as the soil they used to patch up a tarmac road will definitely not
> last very long after which we shall all start throwing stones at the
> innocent county government and its contractors.
>
> It might also be prudent for KRA to adjust the effective tax paid by
> Safaricom if most of it will have to be used to repair problems that they
> have caused, more like the case of the American government and the
> cigarette manufacturers.
>
>
>
> Fortunately the school and residents next to where this shoddy work was
> done took it on themselves to sort sort the issue as it had become a
> mosquito breeding ground.
>
> Regards
>
> PS.  If any of you can see a silver lining in this please share it with me.
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
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>
>
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>
>   On Friday, 17 January 2014, 10:36, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
>  IMHO this is a responsibility for the newly devolved Nairobi county.
>
> It's not reasonable to expect the national government to care about this
> stuff, but it's certainly the case that poor construction on city roads
> needs to be managed by Kidero et al.
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
> Robert
>
> More importantly besides,the charges a policy to ensure this is embedded
> in the construction by laws of this country..
>
> Ali Hussein
>
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>
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>
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> On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:47 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Self explanatory
>
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
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> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
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>
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