Interesting article on lobbying. To a large extent I agree with you. Trade Associations that seem to have gotten it right include KEPSA and KAM (KAM being to a large extent a member of KEPSA).

I still recall that one of the first official acts of President Uhuru Kenyatta when he was president-elect was to hold a breakfast meeting with KEPSA. As an industry I think we can learn a lot from how KEPSA engages with Government and other stakeholders. They have a vibrant secretariat which communicates with its members on a weekly basis.

Thank you for raising this issue.

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On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

It is a hard task running an organization representative of industry, especially when those represented are reluctant to support the same and would much rather lament on social media, become armchair critics or worse still suffer in silence. The downside to this state of things is that it feeds the corruption and broker culture that builds an impermeable wall between the larger industry, making access to legislation, or other positive industry action impossible. Such is our condition in the silicon Savannah.

More here - http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/lobbying-necessity-not-choice.html

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