I totally agree with Ndemo. Government needs to spend on infrastructure in order to facilitate enterprise. Merry Christmas to all Listers!!! Peres -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+pwere=cascadegl.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+pwere=cascadegl.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of bitange@jambo.co.ke Sent: 23 December 2009 10:05 To: pwere@cascadegl.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] {Disarmed} Re: Question on ICT/BPO Park Robert, Let us not be too critical of ourselves. We have indeed done good even with the procurement of land. Land is an emortive issue in Kenya and any time the words Land and Politician appear togther, there bound to be controversy. The Land we are buying was owned by 2,500 farmers. to get the minds of all these people together is not easy. We now have the Title and the project has started. How come we focus mostly on the negative? Inspite of all our negativity, I love my country Kenya and its opennness and the growth of democratic space. That a poor farmer can complain in the media and the Government responds. This is not true in some of the countries you praise. Whereas we have gone past "this is the order from above", some of our brothers in Africa have not and this has its cost in the midist of calm and perceived order. I am shocked when some contributors argue that we should be spending such resources on feeding Kenyans. This is like teaching someone on how to eat the fish rather than how to catch it. The Government needs to spend more on infrastructure to facilitate enterprise. We allso must work to earn our living. We must plan well. For example we should not have more children than we can care for. Giving birth to eleven children and hoping that God or our Government will help is height of stupidity. If Jesus were to meet a Kenyan today, the Kenya will ask "please help me see the Kingdom of Heaven" yet Zachriah several years back asked Jesus "how can I see the Kingdom of Heaven". Zacharia new he had some responsibility to this effort even thaough he had access to Jesus. This where our problems lie -- taking responsibility for our actions. Merry Chrismas. Ndemo.
It is interesting what you find when searching the Internet, we seriously need to add some information on the web.
We are unable to sort out a basic issue like procurement of land for the ICT Park, look at the following article on what our neighbour Uganda are doing. Its time we stopped thinking that the whole world is waiting for us to clean our act, others are moving on.
http://www.cio.com/article/375713/Indian_Investor_to_Build_US_200m_ICT_Park_ in_Uganda
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696robertyawe%40yahoo.co.uk
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