[kictanet] Business In a Time Of Diminishing Trust

[K Machuhi]

With all due respect to legit tenders winners, could it be that others
'killed other businesses' for them to win those tenders?
The utter classlessness that is county/ government supply business!

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:38 AM Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau via kictanet <
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> The National and County Governments are the leading culprits of "Killing"
> businesses. You deliver products, but it takes years for the government to
> honour payments. In mind I have the case of the suppliers who have been
> asking for payment from the Prisons Department, and they blame the person
> of the Principal Secretary for their predicament.
>
> The private sector learns from the government and perfects the art of
> dishonouring agreements.
>
> The "Utado" attitude reigns everywhere.
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 10:25 Ali Hussein via kictanet <
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>> Interesting read...
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>> On 6 Feb 2020, at 10:16 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet <
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>> 
>> Contracts, purchase orders, letters of intent, IOU’s and many other
>> instruments of business are increasingly not worth the paper they are
>> printed on, even if created by and under the direction of legal counsel.
>> Transacting business in Kenya, whether with an individual, SME, corporate
>> and even government can be a game of chance, where your enterprise is
>> better off getting what it can right out of the gate as future payments are
>> not assured or the effort to get it on the books leaves teams adversely
>> worn if the business is not already tittering on closure, having hedged
>> every possible credit line to stay afloat and servicing errant customers.
>> Such is the reality for many entrepreneurs and their operations regardless
>> of their stage, where exposure can range from the thousands to billions of
>> shillings.
>>
>> http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/business-in-a-time-of-diminishing-trust.html
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