[kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential speeches puzzles kenyans

[Dennis Kioko]

Just to be sure that we not only won the fight, but also the war, what does
the government mean by "other modern means".


On Wednesday, 4 June 2014, Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) via
kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Dear All,
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> Excellent campaign, immediate results:
> http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kenyans--Govt-tender-notice-to-airlift-presidential-speeches/-/1056/2337112/-/phbsig/-/index.html
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> David Kedode
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+hotline=
> cofek.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Walubengo J via kictanet
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 4:12 PM
> To: The Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek)
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential speeches puzzles
> kenyans
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> @Rad!
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> 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 :-)
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> walu.
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> 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
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> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
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> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 3:57 PM
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>  But surely
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> we are past the mentality of "that's how it has  always been done".
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> Given that the bid bond is 500,000,
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> 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?
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> Jun 4, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
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>  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 :-)
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>  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
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> :-)
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>  walu.
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>  On Wed, 6/4/14, Rad! via kictanet
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>   Subject: Re: [kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential  speeches puzzles
>        kenyans
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>   To: jwalu at yahoo.com
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>   Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 3:36 PM
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>   There are plenty of
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>   techniques and tools to cryptographically sign and send
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>   documents.
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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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