<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>Hi Daktari,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span><br></span></div><div><span><font size="3">Sorry for being blunt, but I strongly believe you live in </font>utopia<font size="3">, unless you are planning to bring expatriate town planners, city engineers and cabinet secretaries then Konza will be built and maintained in the same way as Nairobi and other local buildings and establishments.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">See below the picture of a fire hydrant in Nairobi opposite City Hall, this is to dispute your claim that we do not have fire hydrants but what we have is blocked
and none functional fire hydrants among many other facilities. </font></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div id="yiv836597256">
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</div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_14_133031967663594"><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_14_133031967663594">With issue of 75% of jobs in a county must be filled by locals then we expect Konza to suffer from worse problems than cosmopolitan Nairobi.</div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_14_133031967663594"><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_14_133031967663594">Regards</div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_14_133031967663594"><br></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">----- Original Message -----</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke></span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke></span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Sent: Sunday, 26 February 2012, 19:03</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Subject: Re: [kictanet] Looking back at Konza</span><br
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Treasury could not fund the project because the incentives were not spelt</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">out in the Finance Bill. We were to incentify organizations that moved</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">their businesses to Kenya. All they needed was to cover their migration</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">by footing a six month rent. We had practically
secured about 6,000 seats</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">out of India.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Some of the larger enterprises keen on Kenya are still looking for</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">accomodation. They have given Sameer Park what they want and if the</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">modifications are done, they would move in. Even us we were under the</span><br
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">assumption that every building that comes up adheres to the Building code.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">This does not happen.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">They do not take security of the wokers seriously. You have seen how the</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">fire Brigade struggles to get water to the fire incidences. Mordern</span><br style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">cities have fire hydrants on every access road. They have fire detectors,</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">fire sprinklers in every floor and above all sufficient number of toilets.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">We still assume that some of us would use the fast disappearing bush to</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">answer calls of nature. The state in Nairobi is pathetic. I see it
in</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Telcom Towers wher sometimes people literally queue to use the toilet. We</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">have forgotten that when the International Life Houese cought fire in its</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">9th floor, people were rescued by helicopters as it lacked alternative</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">fire escape. Most International organizations have since left the</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">building. We must embrace International Standards if we have to be</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">competitive. Since all these requirements are in the Building Codes, we</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">need better enforcement. Not just the Government, we all must demand that</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">these codes are followed. We simply take too many risks.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Enough for now.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Ndemo.</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>