Fiona & Ali:<div><br></div><div>Good list, kindly note Nik Nesbitt is no longer IBM’s Regional Director. It’s Caroline Mukiira. As a former IBMer responsible for Public Sector I’d strongly suggest you consider some IBM Partners too.</div><div><br></div><div>As a Kenyan-AMERICAN the list we have though great needs to be countered by real HEAVY WEIGHTS! Check out if Dr. Malcolm Beech Washington DC Chamber of Commerce is on the US FTA delegation. He is a CLOSE FRIEND very strategic HEAVILY SUPPORTED by the International Republican Institute (IRI) I hosted him in my Mpaka Road Marianna Guesthouse and was very impressed by his KENYAN ROOTS NETWORK!</div><div><br></div><div>My experience in Washington DC for 20 years now is that to have INROADS with American CORPORATIONS you must be a longer term planner!</div><div><br></div><div>I took Malcolm to the Lamu Governor through my GOK connections! Now Americans are in the LAPSSET program but we who facilitated the meeting are not in the picture! His Americans came quickly got married to Kenyan men for change!</div><div><br></div><div> Now we meet in JAVA GIGIRI they frown at me and say “HAVE WE MET?” I tell them “Kenya is for us BLACKS” are you still at the same TRINIDAD address dangerous as hell in South East? My kids worked in a garage there for a great Somali Mr. Abdul who left Kenya as a refugee when Somali was UNILATERALLY DESTROYED by you know who! </div><div><br></div><div>They look around and I tell them “AM STILL AT THE BETHESDA ADDRESS in Montgomery County you can’t afford” I have lived there 20 YEARS!</div><div><br></div><div>Am not rude good Kenyans! If we don’t FIGHT LIKE FREEDOM FIGHTERS for our businesses, these thugs are here to have the good life in Gigiri and Village Market as we all TOIL IN WRONG ADDRESSES and all e did is introduced them to our GOK contacts!</div><div><br></div><div>I want to volunteer to work “BEHIND THE SCENES with TESPOK’s Fiona and give you ammunition to counter these thugs”</div><div><br></div><div>As African businesses especially KENYA, ETHIOPIA Ghana (where Michelle Obama traced her roots) and Nigeria we were treated too badly after Obama won in 2008 by the same Republicans to deny our Obama a second term!</div><div><br></div><div>These guys colluded and destroyed our ICT companies by giving us 5 year contracts and declining to pay us! We went to our lawyers we were told “too bad Dr. Mary Ngunyi-Muiruri it’s a USG CONTRACT YOU CANNOT TERMINATE only SRA can terminate and by the way YOU ARE BOUND FOR 7 YEARS to not work for any other CONTRACTOR!</div><div><br></div><div>By 2011 OUR BUSINESSES were crippled we couldn’t support Obama’s second term! We are blessed COVID-19 is more controlled in Kenya! Let’s PROTECT OUR BUSINESSES from complete DEMISE by the same Republicans who MERCILESSLY TARGeted and KILLED OUR BUSINESSES!</div><div><br></div><div>Proudly Kenyan Citizen I fly my KENYA 🇰🇪 FLAG HIGH with a KENYAN PASSPORT; and US PERMANENT RESIDENT since 2000 it ain’t a crime to love my KENYA 🇰🇪 KIPENZI CHANGU more than America my great SECOND HOME!<br><br>Baraka MOB WOTE!</div><div>Dr. Maria<br>On Tuesday, September 15, 2020, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Fiona</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This is great news. However, please allay our fears as I see neither TESPOK nor TESPOK members on the list. For ease of reference please see attached list.</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" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:14 PM Fiona Asonga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> 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><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>Hallo All</div><div><br></div><div>TESPOK is representing local ICT companies in the U.S. FTA negotiations. I will however share the issues that arise here by end of day today so that we can have a moderated discussion to gather input from the greater ICT sector. There are several areas that we can give input on, close to 12 areas.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">***************************<br>Dr. Mary Ngunyi<br></span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Afrika ICT Strategies Inc.</span></i></b></span></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.5"><i>Technology Consultant</i></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.5"><i>US:1-301-642-5345;KE:+254-733-503-110;770722018;722802420</i></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="mailto:mariangunyi@gmail.com" target="_blank">mariangunyi@gmail.com</a> </span></i></b></div><br><div><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">This message contains privileged information protected under INTERNATIONAL privacy and security laws. If you receive this message by error do not circulate it, it is an infringement on Afrika ICT Strategies Inc., and the writer's personal privacy and data protection rights. Destroy and do not CIRCULATE. If this message reaches you by error, please destroy and do not FORWARD</span><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>