Dear Mr. Theuri, Your allegations: "That foreign entity is again in the news as a mysterious deal has been worked out with the regulator and the government disregarding a court ruling" These are sereous allegations implying irregularity on our part when the facts are that it was prudent to extricate the Government out of the many legal battles by Econet that could potentially cost the Kenyan tax payer an enormous amount. There cannot be a court rulling baring the Government from making prudent decisions. In my view you are mixing issues of Econet vs KNFC and Econet vs CCK. FYI there is no matter in court yet this issue continue to hurt our image as an investment destination. What we dealt with yesterday were two cases instituted by Econet against the Government and the then Minister for Communications. If you read carefully the Times story you are referring to, it has nothing to do with the actions we took. Econet still has to contend with the shareholding issue and meet CCK conditions. Whatever the background of Econet, we must follow the law and it cannot be right that we see that law through your lenses. Have a nice day. Regards Bitange Ndemo. which one can

read about below. Walu,

Actually the story came from the Media Institute and was shared on various Kenyan discussion groups and I was only passing it on. I'm not related to Alex Gakuru but its likely we may find ourselves working on the same or similar issues or we may even have differing views.

Some of these corporates have been harassing members of the media. It was only a year or two ago where a corporate entity was noted by a Minister for passing brown envelopes in return for favorable stories or wielding influence in such a way that a journalist who had exposed the entity's activities was summarily dismissed by his boss via sms when he was away on leave. Fortunately the journalist was vindicated when his boss got the boot and he was reinstated.

That foreign entity is again in the news as a mysterious deal has been worked out with the regulator and the government disregarding a court ruling which one can read about below. It was the

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