Sorry Walu....but I beg to differ. Let me quote some parts of the article...<div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; "> his appointment as DG was not the most applauded and I doubt the circumstances of his re-appointment will elicit any more excitement."</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; ">so what? The hoi polloi who are now beneficiaries of his actions need not have known about his credentials or his actions. Or should the recent Uhuru Park prayer meeting be the standard against which "success" should be measured? If that is the case, if we have to laud people o their appointment (if we have to deem people fit even PRIOR to them rolling up their sleeves), then I want to "de-jivunia kuwa mkenya".</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; ">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">He was a lower ranked official at the same organisation when he was elevated to the top in a recruitment exercise marked by intense lobbying and jostling. Indeed, part of his problems arise from the internal perception that he was helped up or bypassed more senior or deserving colleagues to become head."</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">So we should endure the old guard and the old ways. Perpetrate cronyism and jingoism in sector regulation? Does one's tail have to be so long in order to wag it? Is this really a precedent we want to set?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">That statement in itself fells the argument. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'comic sans ms', fantasy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">nowhere in the law is the minister invited to determine whether the Commission has acted right or wrong in its disciplinary actions. That is interference, period. "</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Agreed. But, if in the first place, the basis of such decisions are flawed...then what? What recourse is there to the DG and the Minister if the board's decisions are not "above the board" ?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Sorry...but I think this is the wrong judgement call. It takes away attention from what the board's interests are and what national issues are at stake (and which have been served as per the mandate of CCK). </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', fantasy; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Could David Makali instead elucidate what Mr Njoroge has NOT done or done wrong rather than burying all these issues in all manner of conjecture, hearsay and supposed adherence to the independence of CCK? </span></div>
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</span></div><div>On 20 April 2011 08:00, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<span>It seems this saga refuses to die...<br>~~~<br>The Star<br>Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:04 </span>
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BY DAVID MAKALI </span>
</div><br><p>A little over a week ago, Information and Communications minister
Samuel Poghisio called a press conference to announce that he had
revoked the suspension of the director general of the Communications
Commission of Kenya.“For the avoidance of doubt, I wish to state that
Charles Njoroge remains in office and that as the appointing authority I
will proceed to renew his contract in line with the law,” he stated.</p><p><br></p><p>The
minister’s intervention may have seemed timely and proper. Given the
infighting that had become the order of the day at the CCK between the
board of directors (or some) and the director-general, some form of
external intervention was necessary to establish order.</p><p>However,
questions still linger over what exactly the minister did, if it was
legal, and if it is in the interest of the general telecommunications
sector and the public in general. At the time of this writing, his
re-appointment or otherwise had not been gazetted.</p><br>more @<br><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3cddk4h" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/3cddk4h</a></b><br><br>walu.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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