<div dir="ltr"><div>Has Kenya really gotten anything from that Telkom deal? Orange has no real plans for the Kenyan market, and worse the management teams they recommend over are either totally incompetent or really don't care about the state of Telkom Kenya.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What options do we have?</div><div>1. Let it go... Simply pull out. Cut our losses and ran. Indicate to Orange we will not make anymore investment if we are not in-charge of it. If this whittles down our shareholding to 0, so be it. Sometime though, I feel as if this is exactly what Orange wants, then they can revive it nicely.</div>
<div>2. Kick them out. They simply have failed to deliver, then rebuild Telkom as a Kenyan Parastatal that leads in technology and innovation and ofcourse support it with certain preferences and especially so in Government jobs and build a local 'M-Pesa' that is then used to make most of these government transactions that we're supposed to be onto by 1st April 2014 (Could it be an April fools joke bytway???)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Waithaka Ngigi</div><div>A1.iO</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div>By all intents and purposes this privatisation has not worked. Maybe we should go the Rwanda way and roll back the dice...</div>
<div><br></div><div><span><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Treasury-ignored-AG-advice-on-Telkom-deal/-/996/2072052/-/t06mrw/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Treasury-ignored-AG-advice-on-Telkom-deal/-/996/2072052/-/t06mrw/-/index.html</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Lessons learnt?<br><br><div><span>Ali Hussein</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>"Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb</span></div>
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