<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Alex, is there a vacancy? I seriously would not mind working at CA :) Those allowances jo.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Seriously, </div><div><br></div><div>We certainly need Kenyans to attend the said meetings. Imagine an ITU or CTO, or IGF or Plenipot or ICANN's GAC without a Kenyan delegation? It would rubbish our claim as being the "Silicon Savannah". Should we vilify those allowances? Ask Sarah Serem and the SRC. It's SRC that rationalized those allowances.  </div><div><br></div><div>BUT with the same ZEAL CA are dining mid air, can they ensure USF are implemented. Yes, USF, USF, USF.</div><div><br></div><div>------ </div><div>And after airing the allowances for all and sundry, expect every politician to get 5 relatives employed in CA. So in two years time, the staff of 180 will be 1000.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Francis Wangusi, the CA director-general, for instance, earned a total of Sh6.1 million in per diem in the year to June 2015, topping the list of managers who made a fortune out of travel allowances.</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">The report shows that Mr Wangusi made 16 trips and was away from office for 105 days of the year.</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Peris Nkonge, the authority’s director of finance and accounting, was second in the pecking order having pocketed Sh5.7 million in travel allowances from nine trips.</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">“Local per diem rates have been enhanced and if left unchecked, the number of travel and allowances are getting out of control,” the auditors warned.</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">The CA pays its executives an average of Sh10,675 per day in per diems for local travel while foreign travel is paid at between $400 (Sh41,700) and $1,000 (Sh104,200) per day depending on the city and country visited.</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">The list of top travel allowance beneficiaries includes Matano Ndaro, the director of competition affairs, who pocketed Sh5.6 million followed by Martin Ngesa, the assistant director in charge of postal licensing and compliance (Sh5.4 million), Rachel Alwala, the assistant director, e-commerce (Sh4.8 million), and Gababo Wako (Sh4.7 million).</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Other senior managers who strained the CA’s budget with hefty per diem earnings are Michael Katundu, the director of information, who received Sh4.5 million, Tom Olwero, assistant director, frequency spectrum management (Sh4.47 million), Mohamed Haji, the assistant manager, frequency planning (Sh4.41 million) and John Omo, the authority’s secretary (Sh4.40 million).</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Rose Nduku, an enforcement officer at the CA, logged a total of 219 days out of office and earned Sh2 million in per diem. The audit did not measure the full impact that prolonged absence of the executives had on operational efficiency, effectiveness and achievement of targets.</p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br><br>"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson<br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 October 2015 at 12:49, Alex Watila via skunkworks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke" target="_blank">skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The article goes on to say that<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">“</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#333333">In most cases, the report says, non-technical staff travelled to attend technical events such as meetings of the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union, Bern-based Universal Postal Union and Arusha-headquartered Pan African Postal Union.<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#333333">“There were cases where travel was not in line with the official departmental mandate,” says the report.”<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Watila Alex [mailto:<a href="mailto:awatila@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">awatila@yahoo.co.uk</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 5, 2015 9:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>; Skunkworks Mailing List <<a href="mailto:skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke" target="_blank">skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Globe-trotting CA executives pocket Sh307m in one year<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Senior managers went on a travelling spree in pursuit of allowances, the report says, culminating to some officials staying out of their workplace for a total of seven months.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CA-executives-pocket-Sh307m-in-one-year/-/539550/2898518/-/82w07z/-/index.html" target="_blank">Globe-trotting CA executives pocket Sh307m in one year</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="450" style="width:337.5pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:.75pt"><td colspan="8" style="background:#e5e5e5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#e5e5e5"><span style="font-size:1.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td></tr><tr style="height:4.5pt"><td width="1" rowspan="5" style="width:.75pt;background:#e5e5e5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:4.5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#e5e5e5"><span style="font-size:1.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td><td width="168" rowspan="5" style="width:1.75in;background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:4.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CA-executives-pocket-Sh307m-in-one-year/-/539550/2898518/-/82w07z/-/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="168" height="168" alt="image"></span></a><u></u><u></u></p></td><td width="1" rowspan="5" style="width:.75pt;background:#e5e5e5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:4.5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#e5e5e5"><span style="font-size:1.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td><td width="14" rowspan="5" style="width:10.5pt;background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:4.5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <u></u>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