- "Utopia for business, is when politics and business are totally divorced": In the same way that an individual can't perform as a surgeon and a lawyer with equal excellence at the same time, GoK shouldn't expect or imagine that it can run businesses and govern at the same time. GoK's role should be to create the enabling framework, implement it and then run maintenance work over it, otherwise leave the private sector to run with these programmes. Civil servants owning or running businesses should either declare their interests or forfeit them.
- Given Kenya's "chama" phenomena...GoK should move fast to incentivize local collective borrowing and investment: So support investment clubs by recognising legally and in terms of IPOs, giving the opportunity afforded so-called QIIs.
- ...however, all these can only be done with the right leadership: Kenyans are yet to have the sort of leadership that is able to adequately address 21st Century problems that we face. For example, we talk day and night about diaspora remittances, but we don't want to give them dual citizenship; there are no known programmes to work with so-called developed nations to facilitate Kenyan economic migrants similar to those done by South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In ICT, we need a qualified head of ICT who covers everything fro mobile telephony to the undersea cabling to computerisation of schools; GoK information network et al
Friday, July 27, 2007
Excellent interview with EABL's CEO
I really like some of the ideas that Mahinda had.
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Am ever surprised by the ever widening gap between the private sectors managers vis-a-vis our so called political leaders on their views of how, what,when is needed to move the country forward.
Whilst the former are dynamic forward thinking and action-result oriented the latter just continue playing politics, rewarding themselves exorbitantly and hardly moving forward.
its like the two live in different world yet need to work together with the political leaders playing their facilitating role effectively.
one day we shall get their
I totally agree with Mahinda on the role of govt in Business. The govts role is that of regulation. That is why I don't support the govt's take over of KTDA from the farmers.
JM-Just imagine that GoK is planning to pay these wabunges more money and 2ndly we may have 90 more of them. What happened to value for money?
Ssem-Sometimes I have to take deep breaths when i read stuff like this KTDA saga. The reason for the intended takeover doesn't even make sense.
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