Iconoclastes
you don't need to attack on me. what was trying to point out was just a fact from financiers and investors point of view. maximising the share holdings value is their main objective.
I havent attacked you personally, but your statements which I found quite asinine, and have attacked them in the mildest manner possible.
Those financiers and investors u are talking about clearly, in their thinking are still grounded in the outmoded form of business dealings that involve intimidation and coercion, the the strong and the willy ones manipulating and duping the weak and the dull.
Fairness and cooperation thru trade agreements and understanding is the way of doing business these days my friend. And there exist laws in Kenya to guarantee that.
Total will just have to listen to, and put into consideration Kenyans' points of view regarding this matter. It will be better that way than if arrogance and coercion characterize their dealings with Kenyans.
Why????
This shows the level of ignorance to some Kenyans about East Africa politics. Are saying Tanzania has no laws? What is our parliament and parliamentary committees doing. Last time I check Tanzania was following Commonwealth Parliament system where most of government business has to pass through parliament. If Kenya president can't do anything (kind of odd considering the level of bureaucracy that will create) what are presidential executive order for?
Any major decision by the Executive must enjoy the approval of both the Parliament and the Judiciary.
This separation of power exists to guard against another risk of an individual- the president misusing his/her power as witnessed during the Jomo Kenyatta and the Moi era in particular. In other words, the president being the law unto himself.
Now, see how this will make it next to impossible for multinational firms such as Total to impose their will on Kenya cos of their immense financial powers, for they will not be dealing with one person or entity weilding all the political powers and making all the decisions for the whole country.
The executive, the two chambers of parliament and the pipo represented by the opposition and the civil society will all be involved.
The Kenyan President/ executive cannot make decisions without consultations with all these parties.
That however is not the case in Tanzania. Same with Uganda. (Tell me not about your commonwealth parliamentary system, for your system, esp now under the ********, is akin more to an autocratic system of government than a parliamentary democracy. Your claimed democracy is a charade, and the Totals like dealing more with such govts.)
In Kenya, anybody who will be opposed to the deal btwn the govt and such multinationals can launch a litigation in the court of law. The court decision in Kenya is final as per the law.
And where else in East Africa is the civil society groups as active as here in Kenya?
Kenya is not Tanzania!
