<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Victor<div><br></div><div>As they say in accounting terms - That’s not even a rounding error in the scheme of things. </div><div><br></div><div>CA needs to be more creative than this. Here’s a thought:-</div><div><br></div><div>Disband the moribund USF Board and get people who are independent, forward thinking and unafraid to do the right thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Let’s stop pussyfooting around such a big issue when a large swath of this country is being disenfranchised by lack of connectivity while we continue to pat ourselves in the back as the ‘Silicon Savannah’.</div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><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 </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></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></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 26 Feb 2018, at 7:36 AM, Victor Kapiyo 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="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1rem;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) will spend millions to build infrastructure to connect remote villages without mobile voice coverage following an order by President Uhuru Kenyatta to surrender unspent billions to the police.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><p style="margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1rem;color:rgb(77,77,77)">Mr Kenyatta said the authority had nothing to show for the billions of shillings it has collected for a fund established to support infrastructure in remote areas dubbed the Universal Service Fund (USF).</p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><p style="margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1rem;color:rgb(77,77,77)">Now, CA has announced plans to spend Sh85 million in connecting 23,000 residents in six sub-locations in Baringo County to mobile voice coverage.</p><p style="margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1rem;color:rgb(77,77,77)">85m only. </p></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/CA-s-Sh85m-plan-to-link-remote-areas-with-mobile-voice/3946234-4319204-gbsfna/index.html">https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/CA-s-Sh85m-plan-to-link-remote-areas-with-mobile-voice/3946234-4319204-gbsfna/index.html</a><br></div></div>
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