Bw Wafula,

I can assure you - after many years of working with regulators and operators across all of Africa Kenya has the most independent, proffesional and focused regulatory authority.

Take a look at South Africa - capture - spells out what ICASA has been under since inception

What country can you point to that has the levels of independence and autonomy that CCK has.

Brian

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM, joseph wafula <muliaro@yahoo.com> wrote:

I congratulate Mr Njoroge for the appointment as DG for CCK, however I still find the criteria used weak if what was in last Saturday Nation newspaper was part of the criteria. What is clear is that we are far from expecting CCK to meet WTO expectation of an independent regulator. CCK is strongly under what I term "political capture". The issue of salary one earns as a prerequisite for short-listing for the post makes it even worse in my view. What is the future for such criteria in the eyes of all stakeholders particularly those in private sector, Foregn Direct Investors etc? the question is, how can such officer be free from government influence and special interest? Perhaps the criteria of appointment need to be revised to give an independent outfit and sectoral professionalsm to CCK DG position.

Dr Muliaro Wafula

Lecturer JKUAT & Director

Kenya E-governance and E-Content Backbone