<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Yup.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Those too Muraya. Let us elevate our consciousness by asking the hard and right questions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><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
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>AHK & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">
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</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Chiromo Road, Westlands,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Nairobi, Kenya.</span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>
<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><img src="http://t.sidekickopen07.com/s1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LNdFMd_KMKRbM7xW4Wzv6P2zlZNzW26tGP91k1H6H0?si=6190904865718272&pi=615cc383-c77e-453d-d845-2cc2f1625e98&ti=null" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:19 PM S.M. Muraya via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ali<div><br></div><div>About priorities (not accounting semantics:) </div><div><br></div><div>(i) Is the audit report available yet @ <a href="http://www.parliament.go.ke" target="_blank">www.parliament.go.ke</a> or at <a href="http://www.oagkenya.go.ke" target="_blank">www.oagkenya.go.ke</a>?</div><div>(ii) Was the Digital Literacy program device (procurement/loot) driven or data driven?<br></div><div>(iii) Is the Kenya ICT Authority provoking all levels, arms and departments of govt to provide (access to) information?</div><div> <br></div><div>About semantics (not priorities to make Information available to the public :) <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Sh4-4bn-loss-leaves-KWS-technically-insolvent/539546-4142544-fso1g3z/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Sh4-4bn-loss-leaves-KWS-technically-insolvent/539546-4142544-fso1g3z/index.html</a></div><br class="m_-213811218145261284gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Wikipedia notes.. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It has been suggested that the speaker or writer should either say technical insolvency or actual insolvency in order to always be clear - where technical insolvency is a synonym for balance sheet insolvency, which means that its liabilities are greater than its assets, and actual insolvency is a synonym for the first definition of insolvency ("Insolvency is the inability of a debtor to pay their debt."). </div><div><br></div><div>Has <a href="http://go.ke" target="_blank">go.ke</a> been paying it's LOCAL suppliers on time? </div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:44 AM Admin CampusCiti <<a href="mailto:info@campusciti.com" target="_blank">info@campusciti.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I’m curious to understand this insolvency conclusion.<div><br><div>Just picked up this explanation of insolvency from Wikipedia.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Insolvency</b> is the state of being unable to pay the money owed, by a person or company, on time; those in a state of insolvency are said to be <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">insolvent</span>. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet insolvency.</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Cash-flow insolvency</b> is when a person or company has enough assets to pay what is owed, but does not have the appropriate form of payment. For example, a person may own a large house and a valuable car, but not have enough liquid assets to pay a debt when it falls due. Cash-flow insolvency can usually be resolved by negotiation. For example, the bill collector may wait until the car is sold and the debtor agrees to pay a penalty.</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Balance-sheet insolvency</b> is when a person or company does not have enough assets to pay all of their debts. The person or company might enter bankruptcy, but not necessarily. Once a loss is accepted by all parties, negotiation is often able to resolve the situation without bankruptcy.</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A company that is balance-sheet insolvent may still have enough cash to pay its next bill on time. However, most laws will not let the company pay that bill unless it will directly help all their creditors. For example, an insolvent farmer may be allowed to hire people to help harvest the crop, because <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">not</span> harvesting and selling the crop would be even <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">worse</span> for his creditors.</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">I suggest that we don’t consume news that is shallow and half baked. This is a critical government agency and sensationalism does no one any favors. The editors have a fiduciary responsibility to expound and give us an in-depth expose of what the auditor’s report actually says and an interpretation of what it means. </p><div>My two cents.</div><br><div id="m_-213811218145261284m_-5205883649298276992AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><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><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><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 22 Oct 2018, at 8:07 AM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Priorities, priorities, priorities..<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Auditor: ICT authority is technically insolvent<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Auditor--ICT-authority-is-technically-insolvent/1056-4816222-1ob4pwz/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Auditor--ICT-authority-is-technically-insolvent/1056-4816222-1ob4pwz/index.html</a><br></div></div>
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