<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">All government employees are net tax payers like you and I so who exactly is this tax collector who is not a net tax payer? Or yes, the member of parliament who you and I elected to go and take care of our interests.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">So instead of bashing the </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">bureaucrats plan on how to discipline parliament, be it central or devolved, because we remain government and the buck stops with you and I. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Regards </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif"><br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> </font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Eng. Wainaina Mungai <wainaina.mungai@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, 27 April, 2011 10:40:31<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Who is government?<br></font><br><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;">Thanks for the timely reminder but….I am referring to the part of government that <b>collects tax </b>and spends it (in)/appropriately to address some taxpayer's concerns such as roads, etc subsidies in times of hardship etc.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;">We are all government in an extrapolated sense...but let us focus on the <u>net tax collector</u> rather than the net taxpayer.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"><br></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br></div><div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;">From your position who exactly is this animal called government, as Kariuki Chotara once quipped "wapi huyo Karu Max anafanya watoto was university kutupamawe, a shikwe na kufungwa jela" in the same breath from your utterances I say "let us find this fellow called government and jail him/her/it after which the price of imported petroleum will come down
to 3/- per litre and all Kenyans will be free".</div><div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;"><br></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">What the late Kariuki Chotara did not understand was what is called an </font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">ideology and him I forgive, government is an ideology not a place, person or principle. </font></div>
<div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">As we implement the new constitution at 3G speed I hope those of us in the know are aware of the impending tsunami "when you feel the earth quake look out for the tsunami" - A Japanese plaque written over 100 years ago whose message was
ignored by the younger more technologically savvy generation.</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">We are about to create 42 centres of power each of which will want to add additional levies to those currently existing ones so the 25% increase in the cost of living in the urban areas will seem like a drop in the ocean. Bananas from Tanzania will pass through 3 counties each of which will want to charge a levy so by the time the banana gets to you in Nairobi it will definitely not cost the current 5/- worse still will be those coming from Kisii.</font></div>
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are government so lets stop throwing stones at ourselves and use our education to offer solutions to problems. The government is like a knife therefore what matters is who welds it.</div><div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;">
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<br></div><div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;">PS. The ability to shutdown social media is an essential safety device and I strongly believe needs to be put in place not having it is like sending our police to apprehend armed thugs by claiming that the police might use the guns to shoot innocent people. I vote for an internet kill switch just like the rest of
the developed nations, do not deceive yourself that the internet has no kill switch.<br> </div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br>
<font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br>
<font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div>
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