<div dir="ltr"><div>Sometimes one looks at Kenya and shakes his/her head and just leaves because our systems are crafted to fail by design.</div><div>When governments worldwide are putting in place emergency measures which only require legislative endorsement/backing, whereas such legislative backing should already be part of our statutes and should only require the legislature to kick them into gear (we do have examples - like allowing the president to call in the military to help the civil police in certain situations) here we have a National Assembly which wakes up and appears to commission a study on what to do during an emergency.</div><div>The same legislators have trodded the world doing benchmarking, thereby wasting millions when their only interest during such trips are their allowances.</div><div>Having benchmarked all their time, can't they just raise their necks a little and see what other African countries like Botswana, Rwanda and South Africa are doing?</div><div><br></div><div>The most interesting bit is that when Kenyans were shouting themselves hoarse that border should be closed and flights stopped, no one listened - until COVID-19 landed here.</div><div>Aren't we looking like fools trying to legislate during an EMERGENCY - a medical PANDEMIC?</div><div><br></div><div>If we never had any such legislation, it is time to copy/paste from the neighbors. </div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 09:54, Liz Orembo via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Good morning listers,</div><div><br></div><div>The senate has established an ad-hoc committee that will oversee the responses of the national and county governments to the covid 19 pandemic. The committee has issued a call for submissions on the following themes.</div><div><ol><li><b>Health </b>- includes community health, testing centers, mental health, role and engagement of county governments.</li><li><b>Economic and Finance Issues - </b>Includes macro economic effects, measures that the government can take to cushion SMEs and borrowers.</li><li><b>Social, Public order and Human Rights - </b> Includes protection of vulnerable groups, and enforcement of curfews </li><li><b>Access to Food, Water and other basic commodities </b>Includes measures to support continuous production and supply of essential services at affordable prices. Food, water etc</li><li><b>Support services and cross cutting issues - </b>Includes awareness creation, how to combat stigmatization and network access across the country.</li></ol></div><div><br></div><div>Listers, what are your views? How can ICTs help in these 5 areas? and how can the government improve its communication and network connectivity across the country? </div><div><br></div><div>Please find attached the call for public participation with more details. The deadline for submission is 8th April. </div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div><font style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif" size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best regards.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223<br>"<span style="font-size:12.8px">Oh, the cruft.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">", </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">grep ^[^#] :-)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>