<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3571" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3576">Badru, </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4538" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4537">Your concerns are genuine. But your conclusion are incorrect. It is not an African problem. It is a global problem. All over the world consultants are used for many other reasons other than expertise. A century old joke "a consultant is the person who borrows your watch to tell you the time." </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5345" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5699">But why do organisations use engage consultant? Other illicit reasons:</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3862" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3863"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4042"><u id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4041">Local organizations:</u></b> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3866" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3894">1. To get a kickback from the consultant/consultants when a solution in the organization exists. The consultants simply copy and paste internal reports and share the loot with some people in the organization. A friend once quipped that if you want to get really broke try to chase consultancy tenders - sometimes the reports are ready before the tender is advertised. You simply escort the chosen one;</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3980" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_3979">2. For senior management to force a course of action which is opposed by the junior staff;</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4010" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4064">3. To hoodwink the public/shareholders that sufficient study or research was carried out;</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4171" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4170">4. To forestall opposition by using expert advice as a shield; and lastly as you mention ..</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_6193" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_6192">5. To hide behind the consultant reports when things go really wrong - Recall the current wave of cases involving consultant advice (Mumias and Kenya Airways). One ex-MD simply said that the external auditors had given him a clean bill of health or was it?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4172" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4206"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4440"><u id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4439">International organizations:</u></b></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4241" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_4240">1. To repatriate funds against local regulations to the home country. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5175" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5174">2. To ignore local opinion in furtherance of other self-serving headquarter interests.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_6824" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_6825">I could go on but let me pen off here.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5961" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5989">Best regards</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_5962" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444038542665_6003">James</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, 5 October 2015, 12:32, Badru Ntege via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3690621029"><div>
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Why do we need a consultant to tell us what is already obvious in the Telco sector? I think the regulator is throwing too much bureaucracy at an issue which can be resolved over a cup of tea with the various protagonists in the industry. </div></div>
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<div>This is a common African problem where public agencies get legitimacy by employing a consultant to tell them what they already know. That way if things go wrong they can blame the consultant. </div>
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<div>Makes you wonder how this would happen in Private sector. Would you keep that person in a job if they always depend on consultants to tell them the obvious. ?????</div>
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