<div dir="ltr">Washington:<br>The appointment of a DG, as I said, is political. This we have to live with. Instead of Shem giving the guy a chance to fail, he automatically starts complaining about what criteria was used to appoint him after failing to be considered. What does that tell you about Shem?<br>
<br>All I am saying is that anyone in his right mind would not hire someone who has been accused of gross mismanagement of a very high profile parastatal. And therefore complaining of the DG's appointment using such flimsy reasons as that he is not an "informatician" - whatever that means - lends itself to questions about impropriety.<br>
<br>The DG is a manager, he is not a technician. Now if he was appointed to discuss original thoughts about technical issues then we would have a problem. In every country I know Spectrum allocation is an economic issue and not a technical one. In this case the DG - if that is the criteria under contention - is more qualified in my book than Shem. Further there is no cloud hunging over his head.<br>
<br>Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Odhiambo Washington <<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Joseph Manthi <<a href="mailto:jmanthi@gmail.com">jmanthi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Shem:<br>
> This is the one in which you must declare your interest. This sounds to me<br>
> as a question of "rotten eggs". From where I am standing it sounds like you<br>
> are bitter because you were never considered. But let me remind you that in<br>
> the very short past you were senior official of a government parastatal. The<br>
> minister in charge - or whoever - considered it a National Duty to fire you<br>
> and proceed to prosecute you for mismanagement. The case - as you are likely<br>
> to say - has not been settled.<br>
><br>
> It would really be a case of bad governance for anyone to consider you for a<br>
> senior position when you "failed" in the last one the government trusted you<br>
> with. The days of Kenyatta and Moi moving their people from one position to<br>
> another - raping these parastatals as they go - are dying if not dead.<br>
><br>
> It is good to see that the Government has appointed someone with a clean -<br>
> unless I am mistaken - record to this most important jobs. I personally do<br>
> not care who you are as long as you can do your job. The Dir of CCK does not<br>
> have to be an engineer he can be whoever he wants to be as long as he<br>
> manages CCK as it should managed - to the benefit of the mwananchi. In the<br>
> US, the FCC in most times has been headed by lawyers not by communication<br>
> engineers. If he can manage the process of moving this industry forward, I<br>
> say, more power to him.<br>
<br>
</div>Hi Joe,<br>
<br>
I think you lost missed the point Dr. Shem was trying to put across. I<br>
can summarize what he said as follows:<br>
<br>
1. Appointments in KE are still skewed towards certain considerations<br>
which we hoped had been shelved.<br>
2. It's more appropriate to have an informatician, as opposed to an<br>
economist, lead an organization like CCK.<br>
<br>
He did not say anything like it should be led by Dr. Shem Ochuodho.<br>
As regards the court cases, doesn't it still hold true that you are<br>
innocent until proved guilty?<br>
<br>
Your response to Dr. Ochuodho was not objective, but personal.<br>
I hold it that getting personal never addresses the issues.<br>
<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>
Nairobi,KE<br>
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