quicksand wrote:KIKItheKING wrote:These Bongolalas!! Now they are targetting Kenya in everything they do because we restricted their vans from accessing JKIA. Very sad.
The vans access is just the icing. Tanzania is annoyed with the 'coalition of the willing' business, TZ sees Kenya as responsible for formenting the situation where it is finding itself increasingly isolated. They can't understand what the haste is all about, it is in their nature and I for one I am loathe to blame them. So they have taken this small dispute and ran with it. This is where the small-mindedness now comes in.
Unfortunately, Kenyans are getting too hot and bothered. We shouldn't play tit for tat with them. You don't stay angry at a child, and to be honest, the level of business acumen and speed of execution in the Tanzanians in general is comparable to the maturity of a child. It is sad that people will lose jobs and business opportunities but it is time to look past Tanzania, seek opportunities elsewhere instead of trying to hang onto an economy ran by stubborn and insular people; besides,there is probably little any one can do, so leave them to their tantrums. It is not the end of the world.
South Sudan anyone? The place went up in flames and Kenyans had to leave in a hurry. The EU and the carbon footprint stuff for flowers and horticulture? The unending travel advisories? 24 years under Moi?
We have survived all that.
I agree with you on this point. We share the longest border with TZ and the brinksmanship we are playing with them is uncalled for.
Kenya can easily accept the shorter end of the stick but still make more from it than TZ due to our productivity of labour.
We just need to be careful to ensure that we are getting increasing returns from the relationship, an example is tourism. Fact, Tz Safari resources are peerless and in fairness other than Mara, we can't compete or we can only offer an inferior alternative, a mutually beneficial solution is to allow their vans to deliver tourists to JKIA so we get airline/transport revenue and they get park fees.
PS. Anybody had an opportunity to assess the personalities of East Africans? I have been involved in training staff from the East African community (for a private sector company) and hear's my assessment of their personalities.
Tanzanians - Competent and very open, they generally lack experience or street smarts and therefore may come across as slow (mostly because well read Tanzanians are very marketable and are therefore rushed through grades). They are surprisingly very well spoken, mostly due to good schooling (most who get employed by multinationals come from well to do families who can afford high quality education)but not confident. They like gadgets and seem to have all the time in the world to understand all functionalities of IT gadgets or even phones.
Ugandans - Competent, confident and very open as well, they are very well spoken. They are smart workers, not hard workers. They party the best and are happy to talk. These people are so proud of their country and culture that they make you feel like an orphan.
Kenyans - Kenyans in a group of East Africans are generally shy, weakest in expressing themselves yet almost always provide solutions to any given problem. They are generally a bit individualistic and very poor at group work. A Kenyan will have a solution but will never volunteer it unless he is directly asked. Kenyans are almost more experienced than their East African counterparts at every level due to internal competition.
Rwandese, Ethiopians - they are way behind this 3 nations
South Sudanese, Burundians - yet to meet any, I think they are still in the stone age.
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins