Wasalaale! Please stop suspecting here's hard truth. Nowadays the 'real' money is in procurement. <http://www.ppoa.go.ke/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=47>. You recall the time all 3,000 were sacked some years back.. Since the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 came into effect. They changed tact and they put every hurdle in availing information that would enable open tendering. Most of the costly ads are for PR.. An example? One of them recently called me asking me to inform a group of SMEs I was lobbying they get government business, to go collect tender documents from their procurement department at 6 pm. The deadline for submission was 9 am the following morning. You get what I am saying? You don't suppose that person sat on that information 'by accident' all the while? FOI would mean that anyone can go back and demand, for example, all communication, call logs etc that Civil Servant had prior to the tender award? Should pattern be established than impling that the law was broken, then that somebody would find themselves on the other side of the law. Just one example. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, <mwangi@wamae.com> wrote:

Alex:

I suspect that civil servants are not anti the FOI per se, but afraid that digitization will lead to job cuts and, to be somewhat cynical, reduce their ability to exact "rents" from their jobs.

-Mwangi, Jhb Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!

-----Original Message----- From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:59 To: <mwangi.wamae@gmail.com> Cc: <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM,  <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:

...

resistance from staff.  It is not all that easy as I once thought.  We shall not give up though.  Parliament has to pass the FOI for all the digitization to stimulate enterprise.

The Media:

Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in government. How does FOI  threaten their interests? Why is the Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today?

regards,

Alex

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