<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3468"><span>Barrack,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3458"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3457"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3456">I am confident that some day I will walk down the streets of Konza. I have left but I still believe in the vision which many should visit the KoTDA Office and internalize to understand we are sitting on a goldmine.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3469"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3455"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422458497083_3470">Nyaki</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 5:16 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Well done Catherine i bet it has not been easy, we do hope Konza City<br clear="none">will become a reality some day just like Free Primary Education,<br clear="none">having attended the groundbreaking before former President Kibaki left<br clear="none">office,i am hopeful that the optimism he had is still there.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best Regards<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 1/28/15, Catherine Adeya via kictanet <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Bernard,<br clear="none">> Wacha siasa :-)<br clear="none">> Catherine<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:49 PM, Bernard Kioko<br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bkioko@bernsoft.com" href="mailto:bkioko@bernsoft.com">bkioko@bernsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> #yiv5031434463 #yiv5031434463 -- _filtered #yiv5031434463<br clear="none">> {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} _filtered<br clear="none">> #yiv5031434463 {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}<br clear="none">> _filtered #yiv5031434463 {font-family:Cambria;panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}<br clear="none">> _filtered #yiv5031434463 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2<br clear="none">> 4;} _filtered #yiv5031434463 {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2<br clear="none">> 4;}#yiv5031434463 #yiv5031434463 p.yiv5031434463MsoNormal, #yiv5031434463<br clear="none">> li.yiv5031434463MsoNormal, #yiv5031434463 div.yiv5031434463MsoNormal<br clear="none">> {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv5031434463 a:link,<br clear="none">> #yiv5031434463 span.yiv5031434463MsoHyperlink<br clear="none">> {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv5031434463 a:visited,<br clear="none">> #yiv5031434463 span.yiv5031434463MsoHyperlinkFollowed<br clear="none">> {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv5031434463<br clear="none">> span.yiv5031434463EmailStyle17 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv5031434463<br clear="none">> .yiv5031434463MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered #yiv5031434463<br clear="none">> {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv5031434463<br clear="none">> div.yiv5031434463WordSection1 {}#yiv5031434463 Hehehe… I like how your<div class="yqt8550346927" id="yqtfd68976"><br clear="none">> sign-off contains the entire story! From: kictanet<br clear="none">> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+bkioko=<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bernsoft.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:bernsoft.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke">bernsoft.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] On Behalf<br clear="none">> Of Catherine Adeya via kictanet<br clear="none">> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:35 PM<br clear="none">> To: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bkioko@bernsoft.com" href="mailto:bkioko@bernsoft.com">bkioko@bernsoft.com</a><br clear="none">> Cc: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:elizaslider@yahoo.com" href="mailto:elizaslider@yahoo.com">elizaslider@yahoo.com</a><br clear="none">> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Blow as acting Konza techno city boss Catherine<br clear="none">> Adeya quits Yes Mwendwa,<br clear="none">> I am a founding member of Kictanet and will always be here though sometimes<br clear="none">> I lurk in the background. To set the record straight. I did not quite, my<br clear="none">> Contract in government has come to an end. I have been Acting for two years<br clear="none">> and truth be told, I did not want to be handed the position on a silver<br clear="none">> platter. They advertised, I did not apply. The rest is history so let me<br clear="none">> sign off with: How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the<br clear="none">> seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the<br clear="none">> migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would<br clear="none">> listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. –<br clear="none">> Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Thank you,Catherine<br clear="none">> ------------------------------<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Message: 2<br clear="none">> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:09:19 +0300<br clear="none">> From: Mwendwa Kivuva <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com" href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>><br clear="none">> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>,<br clear="none">> "<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ISOC@lists.my.co.ke" href="mailto:ISOC@lists.my.co.ke">ISOC@lists.my.co.ke</a>" <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:isoc@lists.my.co.ke" href="mailto:isoc@lists.my.co.ke">isoc@lists.my.co.ke</a>><br clear="none">> Subject: [kictanet] Blow as acting Konza techno city boss Catherine<br clear="none">> Adeya quits<br clear="none">> Message-ID:<br clear="none">> <CAEhPqwr=cQMMfGVOMz2wnaRX+<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kxK2i71n7k5BjC4pU6G1Kb2rA@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:kxK2i71n7k5BjC4pU6G1Kb2rA@mail.gmail.com">kxK2i71n7k5BjC4pU6G1Kb2rA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Listers, we should note that Catherine Adeya was one of the few active CEOs<br clear="none">> on KICTANET.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Blow-as-acting-Konza-techno-city-boss-quits/-/996/2604390/-/en3nyyz/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Blow-as-acting-Konza-techno-city-boss-quits/-/996/2604390/-/en3nyyz/-/index.html</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> A top official who has been at the helm of the Konza Techno City project<br clear="none">> has opted out amid claims of resource constraints and slow progress.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Dr Catherine Adeya-Weya, who has been the acting chief executive officer of<br clear="none">> the Konza Technopolis Development Authority for two years, said she had<br clear="none">> decided to quit and let someone else come in and lead the project.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> It was, however, clear from her statements that bureaucratic tendering,<br clear="none">> resource constraints and the slow pace of takeoff had largely influenced<br clear="none">> her decision.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> "I just felt someone else needs to take over this project after acting for<br clear="none">> almost two years. I may have considered staying if confirmed, but I may not<br clear="none">> have wanted it. For a project of this magnitude, we require the right<br clear="none">> calibre of staff, and a proper and sufficient recurrent budget.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> ''What I was being paid as chief executive was less than what I used to<br clear="none">> earn in my former role in the private sector and so it is hard to attract<br clear="none">> the high calibre staff with that remuneration," Dr Adeya-Weya said at a<br clear="none">> joint press conference in Nairobi with board chairman, Mr John Ngumi, on<br clear="none">> Tuesday.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> *PERFORMED WELL*<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Mr Ngumi said Dr Adeya-We ya had performed well despite being in an acting<br clear="none">> capacity for the entire period.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> He, however, added that the authority was prepared to continue with the<br clear="none">> little available resources since insufficient funding was a normal<br clear="none">> challenge in all government projects.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The chief executive's term was to end in February, with an option to apply<br clear="none">> when the position was announced in November last year.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> She, however, chose not to, sparking speculations around her withdrawal<br clear="none">> from the team she has led for months.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Mr Ngumi said: "In my view, Catherine has had one of the toughest jobs.<br clear="none">> Anybody who has worked in the private sector knows how hard it is to start<br clear="none">> a startup. It is harder in the public sector where you have all manner of<br clear="none">> stakeholders, and you got to deal with constraints and criticism.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> "She is an example of what we should have in public service and we, as the<br clear="none">> board, would have loved her to apply. 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