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Post by Onyango Oloo on Aug 24, 2005 5:10:26 GMT 3
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Post by aeichener on Aug 24, 2005 10:57:19 GMT 3
I shall try to read it. Try, because the blog once again freezes the browser (MS Explorer) and causes it to hang up entirely. Annoying.
Some bug has been probably incorporated by you in your previous ("45th introspective walk") blog addition, as at least other reader has also reported in the Nation Forum :-(. And it is not due to the images; the applicatation also hangs up if the "no image" option is chosen.
Update: it works however with Mozilla Firefox. Now, I am no adherent of Bill Gates and MS; but still, the majority of users have his IE browser, and I feel your blogsite should be compatible with it.
Regards, Alexander
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Post by adongo ogony on Aug 24, 2005 17:38:19 GMT 3
Oloo can you fix the freezing problem. By the way the Nomiya Luo Church crew are all over my village and are credited with introducing the booming drum rythms to their very lively church choirs. I cannot read the rest of the story and I do have a few things to say about Orie's antics and the weird contradictions in the NGO movement.
Adongo
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Aug 24, 2005 21:43:23 GMT 3
i am working on fixing the bugs. hopefully...
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mtl
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Post by aeichener on Aug 24, 2005 22:23:20 GMT 3
Glad to see you here, Adongo Ogony ! *wave*
Alexander
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Post by aeichener on Jan 23, 2006 14:04:43 GMT 3
Hm. The initially linked blog entry deserves to be looked at again. I am taking out just a small snippet to comment, because of its more general scope and importance:
"The other day I stated, and I reiterate that statement, that the Kenya government should NOT be in the business of dissolving NGOs unless, of course it has come to the parlous state where crimes are being committed and funds held in trust( from funders who are in turn accountable to tax payers in Kenya, Sweden, Canada, the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Ireland and wherever else these "donor funds" emanate from)are in danger of being sqaundered by dubious and devious felons lurking in this or that not for profit posh ofisi."
Point taken. Corruption is not limited to the police, the judiciary, and all kinds of politicians. It has also sneaked its tentacles - smaller and larger ones - into not so few NGOs. The most spectacular case of "Quis ipse custodiet custodes?" was Transparency International's Kenyan chapter. The forced resignation of Gladwell Otieno has severely damaged the entire reputation and credibility of this formerly reputable organization. But there are others too. In many cases, NGOs underwent a process of "africanization" in the 1990s. This was very reasonable; umbilical cords had to be cut, the first and second generations of administrators were phased out, and funders and donors became increasingly conscious and aware that the former paternal and paternalistic (and sometimes patroninizing) style of "Let us wise Men from the North decide what is good for the poor and ignorant Africans" was no longer appropriate when colonial rule had long ended.
Unfortunately, "africanization" meant sometimes - as in so many cases it has meant in the in public administration - that instead of the intended robust and down-to-earth local approach and local accountability to the wananchi (instead to a German, Belgian or Danish bureaucracy and desk-table "experts" from faraway), a mentality of "it's OUR time to eat now" spread around. I think it would be time to name and shame some NGOs where such practices have proliferated; and not just accuse the same usual political suspects everytime. After all, everybody and her her chicken know that Murungaru is a crook; but how many people have taken the effort to have a close look ar AMREF's financial report, and to become livid thereafter ?
Alexander
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