Skip to main content

SAFARICOM'S INEVITABLE WOES

I have been thinking about Safaricom and the impact of their alleged role in August eighth poll rigging. I am made to understand the company so far, in just a matter of days has already lost over 2 million subscribers. This is a grim picture of the future of the company in the communication market as Airtel equally gets the unfair advantage necessitated by Safari com's downfall.

Consider an arbitrary estimate, where the company is to make an average profit of ksh 1000 per subscriber per year. This implies Safaricom is already bracing for a loss of about 2 billion at the end of the year. I don't work with the company and so don't take my theory to be the gospel truth. Loosing 2 million subscribers in days means at the end of the year its subscription could plummete to less than 5 million.

Honestly, the company was adamant to cooperate with Louis Moreno Ocampo and Ben Souda in their attempt to retrieve phonecalls belonging to then President Uhuru and his deputy while they were having a case at the Hague; so outlandish that, same Safaricom( if they were the  Service provider mentioned by Angaza network director, in his petition against a few supreme court judges) illegally exposed the telephone conversations of the supreme court judges.

The company must do a self introspection on its relationship with the government vis avis that  with the Kenyan populace. The communication giant should never even think of colluding with beaurucrats to monopolize the communication industry at the expense of Kenya's democracy. Nations all over the world are today extra-vigillant against tumbocracy by some huge companies and amalgams being awarded lucrative government tenders but are used to subvert the will of the people.

 Consequently it is imperative for the company to rethink its corporate social responsibility and relationship. If the country comes to hate the company, then RIP is the partying shot.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SUPREME COURT RULING

MY SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT I am not a lawyer and as such I am only qualified to render my layman’s submission to the court of public opinion, where one does not apply to be “amicus curiae.” In the court of public opinion everybody is both a lawyer and judge and so I can adduce my evidence confidently and make a ruling on my evidence. I want to usurp this opportunity to tell my one page judgment as Chief Justice David Maraga advised. The Chief Justice invited the public to read the Supreme Court judgment and subsequently make individual ruling.             Guys I tried to look at Chebukati trying by hook and crook to exonerate the commissioners from the mess and implicating the secretariat. Chebukati clarified they just assumed office a few months ago, coming into an old secretariat. Although the summary ruling of the Supreme Court judgment did not point out the culpability of the first and second respondents, my opinion is; ...
Post a Comment
Read more

KAPENGURIA SEVEN

REST IN PEACE FALLEN KAPENGURIA SEVEN. My deepest condolences to the bereft families of seven slain gallant, patriotic officers in Kapenguria. This is an article I wrote on the daily nation last year April last year. I have just read it again and I can’t help being remorseful. Police officers go through a lot.   It is sad that by trying to uphold the law, they paid with their dear lives. The officers resolve to remand in custody a man suspected of links with Alshabaab terror group, led to their encounter with the brutal gun Burrell. It is completely ridiculous and preposterous to blame the police officers for their own death and to concoct somehow a political narrative out of this unfortunate occurrence.    Of course the police know better that apart from protecting the lives of the masses, their own security is paramount. Even within the disciplined police service. Such isolated cases of disgraceful acts from rouge police officers will always occur. Radicali...
Post a Comment
Read more

WHY IEBC MUST NOT RENEGE ON THE 48,000 VOTERS.

WHY IEBC SHOULD NOT RENEGE ON ELECTION RULES. Wafula   Chebukati, must be the most troubled man, sitting on such a hot seat that is the IEBC chair. I am intrigued by his meeting with the presidential aspirants yesterday and how the contenders are pushing him over the cliff to waver on laid down rules concerning presidential nominations. I don’t find any reason why a country like Kenya should register such a huge number of aspirants for the post of president. It is preposterous and laughable for IEBC to waste resources including all these twenty aspirants in the ballot paper. Even if having such an astronomical number of aspirants does not affect the cost of the ballot paper, it will definitely create a huge impact on the final tally of the presidential votes.   It will lead to lots of spoilt votes. The vast list of contenders will lead to confusion especially on illiterate and semi illiterate voters who have nobody to help them vote their preferred candidate. There...
Post a Comment
Read more