[kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential speeches puzzles kenyans

[Muchiri Nyaggah]

I imagine this is administrative "debris" from previous administrations
where enemies of the state could include in a presidential speech, and
consequently turn into "law", whatever they wanted. Such was the power of a
President's speech.


@Muchiri


On Wednesday, June 4, 2014, Walubengo J via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> @Rad!
>
> Wake up. Ofcourse you and I (hassler?) are "past the mentality of thats
> how it has always been".  But believe you me, you would see it differently
> when you will one day sit on the "greener" side of life :-)
>
> walu.
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> On Wed, 6/4/14, Rad! via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential speeches puzzles
>      kenyans
>  To: jwalu at yahoo.com <javascript:;>
>  Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 3:57 PM
>
>  But surely
>  we are past the mentality of "that's how it has
>  always been done".
>  Given that the bid bond is 500,000,
>  and a bid bond is usually a fraction of the budget, how much
>  money are we spending airlifting speeches where a simple PDF
>  attachment to email will suffice? Especially given we are
>  complaining about runaway government spending?
>
>
>  On Wed,
>  Jun 4, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
>  wrote:
>
>  Worse still if the US can listen to our Presidents
>  conversation (good to know we are the league of German Prime
>  Minister :-), what is it we are trying to hide in a
>  presidential speech that would be public knowledge before
>  the end of the day :-)
>
>
>
>
>  This question came up in a previous ConnectedKenya summit in
>  Mombasa but was never convincingly answered. But I think the
>  answer is simple.  There has been a budget to airlift the
>  presidents speech since independence. What has been changing
>  is not the technology, but who gets (eats?) that budget
>  :-)
>
>
>
>
>  walu.
>
>  --------------------------------------------
>
>  On Wed, 6/4/14, Rad! via kictanet
>  <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>  wrote:
>
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>   Subject: Re: [kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential
>  speeches puzzles        kenyans
>
>   To: jwalu at yahoo.com
>
>   Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 3:36 PM
>
>
>
>   There are plenty of
>
>   techniques and tools to cryptographically sign and send
>
>   documents.
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>
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>   On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at
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>   3:27 PM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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>   wrote:
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>   Is there a secure way to email
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>   them?
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> http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/article/2000123584/tender-to-airlift-presidential-speeches-puzzles-kenyans
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