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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">I worked for Telkom Kenya, I know Telkom's problems from the 1980's, I knew Telkom players but last week's e-mail in this forum directed at Dr. Bitange Ndemo regarding Telkom (see the last paras of the e-mail) was purely a smear campaign. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have not met Ndemo in person but the day I meet him, I will hug him for playing part in saving this National asset.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Throughout the 1980's my cousins from the Rift Valley blundered the giant telco. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nine thousand of their kin with barely standard seven certificates were employed to hang around corridors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At one point there were ten tea girls in the MD's office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Managers built magnificent real estate properties in Nairobi using the resources from Telkom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The state corporation owed everybody including KRA and employee pension fund. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At one time KRA was owed 30 billion.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">When Alai implies that the Government used 69 billion to restructure then sold 51% of the corporation for 26 billion as rip off, he only shows us how na�ve he is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Did he expect the French to retire the debts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In my view this Alai man is being used to cover up things in Telkom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Remember in the run up to the election ODM opposed the sale. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now the truth has come out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My cousins did not want anybody to unravel the blunder of public resources they had stolen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They used some of this resource to oil the ODM campaign. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This the same money the Kauleis are using to pay militias in the Rift Valley.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">For sometime now my cousins tightly kept the secrets at Telkom and were jittery when one of theirs Munsonic was bundled out and later Kirei. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To date these cousins of mine still hold the corporation at ransom having created small companies with long term contracts with the corporation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The link between these people and Alai's people was clearly articulated in a rift valley FM station by a Mr. Sang. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He called the Luos the "Bridge" the Kikuyu the "weeds" the Kisiis and Luhyias "madoadoa". <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Bridge was to be used to bring them to the Promised Land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The one in which most us were dubbed that we were part of the larger Kalenjin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Today we suffer in Transmara where the Kalenjin are threatening to take even our local leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You guess what happened to the weeds and madoadoas.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">This brings me to a conclusion that Alai is not alone although he may me working foolishly not knowing that he is being used as a stepping stone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We eagerly await for the Truth Commission to bring all this out before we start attacking people who may not have been party to the destruction of Telkom and other state corporations.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><pre><font size="2">Wainaina</font></pre><pre><font size="2"> </font></pre><pre><font size="2">This is funny. On one hand you are describing how KTN/Standard did incite the public and ignore the fact that All Royal Media outlets including</font></pre>
<pre><font size="2"> </font></pre><pre><font size="2">RamogiFM, Kameme, and KBC have gone to become Kikuyu chauvinist and not ready to protect the interest of Kenya. On another hand you claim ho the current Kenyan problem is political. *THE PROBLEM IS NOT POLITICAL BUT ETHNIC. *I have just come from a tour which took me from Tigoni, Juja, Nyeri, Naivasha, Eldoret, Kisumu, Yala and Busia. I travelled with the IDPs and listened and cried of what I heard. Kenyans are being denied their rights because they are not Kikuyu. I have the word of MPs and confirmed with IOM that the government explicitly informed the Redcross and IOM not to serve some communities. I have horror tales of women whose husbands were hacked with pangas inside Tigoni police station and the police couldnt save because they are not Kikuyu. I have talked to Abbas of IOM of how different</font></pre>
<pre><font size="2"> </font></pre><pre><font size="2">Redcross is treating IDPs. kikuyu IDPs are treated with all care and others ignored. I personally snatched blankets from Pamela who is the regional redcross manager in Kisumu when she refused to give them to mothers and chidren I transported from tigoni and naivasha. I brought 17 buses and called redcross and informed them of my mission. I had a meeting with Dr Simiyu and Abbas Guled and they agreed to prepare the ground. After a whole day travel I got redcross not ready and when they saw the buses is when they started cutting the mbogas and meat. We handed over 4 children whose mother was admitted to Agha khan with serious illness and redcross took the children to a police station in Siaya.</font></pre>
<pre><font size="2"> </font></pre><pre><font size="2">Kenyan problem is tribal and not political. We cannot have one tribe running roughshod and even the religious leaders from Kikuyu preaching the Kikuyu superiority. We cannot have one tribe killing and maiming Kenyans while claiming there is a genocide against Kikuyus. No Kikuyu was killed in Kisumu. Infact they were protected and even I have Mwangi, and Kuria who are my friends living and working in Kisumu even now when they cant work anywhere else. But Kibaki is ordering NGOs not to serve non Kikuyus. Kikuyus enjoy greater access to loans and even humanitarian assistance. Go to Kondele in Kisumu where the Kikuyu IDPs are housed. You will find that there is a bigger difference with Moi stadium where redcross dont want to even put basic facilities forcing the local community in Kisumu to house the IDPs at St Stephens.</font></pre>
<pre><font size="2">kenyans, these theories of Bitange and Wainaina only works for the few they serve. Bitange was key in selling 51percent shares of Telkom Kenya to the french consortium at 26 Billion Ksh. Before that the government cleared a debt of 69 billion. if 51% shares were sold at 26 it menas that Telkom Kenya was just worht 52 Billion. Why settle a debt of 69 billion? What is the mathematics here? telkom Kenya was worthless? Shame on you Bitange. Only people who dont know your inner dealings will respect what you say. You really like to please masters and never acts proffesionaly.</font></pre>
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