Abdulhalim, pole sikua nimeona huu ukurasa na nina kujibu.
The best resource is the human one. You can have all the resorces like DRC or Angola
and remain just as poor as those without.
"Sasa ni ajabu mnataka kuleta hayo masumbufu mnayokumbana nayo huko kwenu kwa"
This is completely misleading. Sisi tu na raha mstarehe na sijui unalo liongelea.
What East african countries are trying to do is to create a big market for all the people of E Africa, not for Kenyans only and we are not forcing anyone for we are still doing fine.
There are many fears that we might dominate all the markets. This fear is being spread by
some selfish politicians and people who do not know what is the meaning of a ' market'
You have your own style which suits you and we have our own and is okay for us and we never
complain..
Yes we have been parsuing the concept of private ownership.
This has allowed competitons among us and we love it that way.
If i own a company, i think about it all the time, wake up very early in the morning, draw
new plans, invent new ways of doing things easier and cheaply.
If it is ours, why care wake up very early in the morning when there are other people who
can do that?
This private companies employ many people who are well paid and also generate most of all taxes which the government needs.
Most of the corruption cases are found in the government quarters and in those poor performin government parastatals.
Workers in those parastatals 'mali ya umma' are poorly paid. Mismanangement, corruption and laziness is the order of the day.
You will never find mismanangement and corruptions in private entarprises kwani hauwezi kuiba kutoka kwa kampuni yako, lakini kama ni ya umma utachota kitu kidogo as we say here.
Since the privatation of the Kenya Telecom, now the phones are working and its workers are well paid than before.
If you need help from them, you get it promptly than before when you had to wait for those abusive and lazy workers to have their tea.
The company is partly owned by the french and partly by government.
I'm writting this through their Orange broadband service.
Before this, it was a miracle if your call went through.
Here in Kenya, you get better treatment and service in private hospitals.
You have a choice to go to governments ones where you have to wait for longer for doctors
to finish talking on their phones.
You also have a choice to take your children to government schools or private ones.
We had those nyayo busses 'mali ya Umma' which went down very fast because of
mismanangement and corrupton.
So anything 'Umma' here seems to be doing very badly and that is why most of people
are supporting that it is time that we go 90% privatization in all quarter and just leave things
like some roads,some hospitals as as 'ya Umma'.
I would even advocate that there should be no free things like free education for it is bringing
down the quality of education.
For the past few years, in the primary education, the privately owned schools have been performing better than those government owned schools where you find teachers reading newspapers all the time.
A teacher has to perform in private schools and you will never see a teacher carrying a newspaper.
Atapoteza kazi mara moja.
Most of the teachers in the government schools are running away to look for jobs in those privately owned ones for they earn salaries which is almost twice as the one paid by the government.
Kwa hivyo kwetu " mali ya Umma" ni yakuibiwa tuu na kama unafanya kazi katika
serikali na wew si corrupt you are told 'kwanini usiibe na mali si yako ni ya umma?'
huwa tuna msemo hapa Kenya kama mtu hataki kufanya kazi ' hakuna chabure na ukitaka cha bure basi enda Tanzania'.
Ni na mengi kuhusu haya mambo lakini ni usiku sana kwaheri.
you have put this very well. people always say that kenyans dont own anything in their country. well i would prefer if orange owns telecom kenya because that will translate to better communicationg services for me. this is what people do not understand, we kenyans really dont care who owns what as long as the job is getting done. i rather have vodafone own majority of safaricom becasue that will translate to kenyans enjoying things like M-PESA before anyone else in the planet does. this is how kenyans think