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<div>Yes, certainly annual progress reports would be helpful</div>
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<div style="word-break:break-all;"><b>Cc:</b>Adam Lane</div>
<div style="word-break:break-all;"><b>Date:</b>2018-02-26 14:46:38</div>
<div style="word-break:break-all;"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile voice</div>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi Adam,<br>
<br>
In light of the intense criticism the USF board has received, it needs<br>
to come out strongly and clarify what it has achieved unless it is not<br>
independent as we are made to beleive.<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
On 2/26/18, Adam Lane via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br>
> I believe the fund already connected about 70 rural sites (as well as<br>
> several hundred schools) last year so has begun to make progress.<br>
> From:Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet<br>
> To:Adam Lane<br>
> Cc:Mwendwa Kivuva<br>
> Date:2018-02-26 14:36:09<br>
> Subject:Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile<br>
> voice<br>
><br>
> Ksh85m is too little too late from a fund that has collected billions.<br>
> Running a single BTS is resourse intensive. It requires physical<br>
> security, generators, power lines, road access, human resource ... and<br>
> much more.<br>
><br>
> Spending the USF on benchmarking trips and allowances seems the modus<br>
> operandi of this board. For the upteenth time, I also join Ali's call<br>
> for the board to be disbanded immediately.<br>
> ______________________<br>
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br>
> twitter.com/lordmwesh<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 26 February 2018 at 08:09, Ali Hussein via kictanet<br>
> <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br>
>> Victor<br>
>><br>
>> As they say in accounting terms - That’s not even a rounding error in the<br>
>> scheme of things.<br>
>><br>
>> CA needs to be more creative than this. Here’s a thought:-<br>
>><br>
>> Disband the moribund USF Board and get people who are independent,<br>
>> forward<br>
>> thinking and unafraid to do the right thing.<br>
>><br>
>> Let’s stop pussyfooting around such a big issue when a large swath of<br>
>> this<br>
>> country is being disenfranchised by lack of connectivity while we<br>
>> continue<br>
>> to pat ourselves in the back as the ‘Silicon Savannah’.<br>
>><br>
>> Ali Hussein<br>
>> Principal<br>
>> Hussein & Associates<br>
>> +254 0713 601113<br>
>><br>
>> Twitter: @AliHKassim<br>
>><br>
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>><br>
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>><br>
>><br>
>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a<br>
>> habit." ~ Aristotle<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Sent from my iPad<br>
>><br>
>> On 26 Feb 2018, at 7:36 AM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet<br>
>> <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) will spend millions to build<br>
>> infrastructure to connect remote villages without mobile voice coverage<br>
>> following an order by President Uhuru Kenyatta to surrender unspent<br>
>> billions<br>
>> to the police.<br>
>><br>
>> Mr Kenyatta said the authority had nothing to show for the billions of<br>
>> shillings it has collected for a fund established to support<br>
>> infrastructure<br>
>> in remote areas dubbed the Universal Service Fund (USF).<br>
>><br>
>> Now, CA has announced plans to spend Sh85 million in connecting 23,000<br>
>> residents in six sub-locations in Baringo County to mobile voice<br>
>> coverage.<br>
>><br>
>> 85m only.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/CA-s-Sh85m-plan-to-link-remote-areas-with-mobile-voice/3946234-4319204-gbsfna/index.html" target="_BLANK">
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/CA-s-Sh85m-plan-to-link-remote-areas-with-mobile-voice/3946234-4319204-gbsfna/index.html</a><br>
>><br>
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