<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Kivuva and all</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The larger questions that we eventually need to ask is:-</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">1. What is the Role of the Regulator in this rapidly fluid digital global economy?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">2. Are Government bureaucrats equipped and empowered enough to navigate this Brave new world? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">3. And when these same government functionaries work hard to equip themselves to navigate this new world do we fully support them or vilify them? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I suspect the answers will come through deeper and more meaningful interaction between the various players - both government and non-government players. <br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 15 Oct 2015, at 5:08 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks <span class="" id=":4rn.1" tabindex="-1">Kapiyo</span>.<div><br></div><div>Ali, I second you. The amendments are very minimal. But the consequences are huge. </div><div><br></div><div>From first glance, what this amendments are doing is to dilute the laid down constitutional safeguards, checks and balances. Giving the CS unilateral powers is just dictatorship for a lack of a better word. <span class="" id=":4rn.2" tabindex="-1">KICA</span>, and the Constitution envisaged a regulator free from any political, and government interference. And the court has ruled severally on the place of CA in our society.</div><div><br></div><div>And changing the law when things are not going your way is the high road to chaos.</div><div><br></div><div><b>This is what the <span class="" id=":4rn.3" tabindex="-1">KICA</span> says: "5B.</b> Independence of the Authority</div><div><div>Except as provided for under this Act or any other law, the Commission shall exercise its functions independent of any person or body."</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Constitution of Kenya, Article 34</b></div><div>(5) Parliament shall enact legislation that provides for the establishment of a body, which shall—</div><div>(a) be independent of control by government, political interests or commercial interests;</div><div>(b) reflect the interests of all sections of the society; and</div><div>(c) set media standards and regulate and monitor compliance with those standards.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All issues of dominance have been passed from CA to <span class="" id=":4rn.4" tabindex="-1">CAK</span>. I don't know what the community feels about that. When <span class="" id=":4rn.5" tabindex="-1">Safaricom</span> and <span class="" id=":4rn.6" tabindex="-1">Airtel</span> dominance war was highly heated, <span class="" id=":4rn.7" tabindex="-1">CAK</span> "seemed" to support <span class="" id=":4rn.8" tabindex="-1">Safaricom</span>, and CA "seemed" to support <span class="" id=":4rn.9" tabindex="-1">Airtel</span>. Does this then mean that <span class="" id=":4rn.10" tabindex="-1">Safaricom</span> has pulled the rug under <span class="" id=":4rn.11" tabindex="-1">Airtel's</span> feet?</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we can have a structured response and give input to "The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2015"</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</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 14 October 2015 at 18:00, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.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="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Victor</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for sharing. Even without reading the proposed amendments I raise a serious red flag regarding the proposed abrogation of powers that have to do with regulation to the executive. What then is the purpose of a supposedly independent CA?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>Pls see below, link to the Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015, which proposes to amend several laws, including KICA.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the objects and reasons:</div><div><br></div><div>Kenya Information And Communications
Act, of 1998 - Firstly to align it with the Competitions
Act, 2014 in respect of the criteria for being a dominant market
undertaking and secondly to harmonize the regulation making power so
that it is exercised by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the
Authority. </div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div>The Competition Act (No. 12 of 2010 - The Bill seeks to amend the Competition Act so as to clarify that the
power to Prescribe, as specified in the Act is to be exercised by the Cabinet
Secretary in consultation with the Authority.<span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#666666" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2015/StatuteLaw__MiscellaneousAmendmens_Bill_164of2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2015/StatuteLaw__MiscellaneousAmendmens_Bill_164of2015.pdf</a></font><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Victor Kapiyo</span></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#666666"><br>====================================================<br><i>“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig Ziglar</i></font><br></div></div></div>
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