Listers Let me also add that an op-ed piece will also work well to article the views of this community. Macharia Gaitho did make a point about not shooting the messenger..Why don't we take him up on his word and craft a piece to see whether it would be published? We must also guard against throwing the baby with the bath water...It is these very freedoms (even the fact that we can openly discuss, agree, disagree on this forum is a cause for celebration as we have come a long way from the repressive regimes that was Kenya before the new dispensation). Can we ask the moderators at Kictanet for direction on way forward? Ali Hussein +254 773/713 601113 Sent from my iPhone® On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Matunda Nyanchama <mnyanchama@aganoconsulting.com> wrote:

Lucy

Good suggestion. I can see that your activist self still burns with fire.

Yes, I would like to be involved in action that would help this situation.

We need a degree of consensus (a) the needed action as this would be a KICTANET (or at least a good cross section of its members) position and (b) the process for that action.

From your note, I get the sense that you are proposing a paid ad/announcement in the paper; words (crafting the opinion once we have the facts) are the easier option. We need enough people to support this both in word and action (payment for the ad).

I am wondering how many people are in support of this.

NB: Dr Ndemo has indicated that the procurement law may be the issue. That is correct. I also know that unchallenges untruths become "truth", which is what the paid announcement would counter.

Over to you.

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