[quote=obiero]The much anticipated and misunderstood PIIP document
http://www.winda.co.ke/Proposed-PPP-KAA-KQ.pdf[/quote]
I have gone through the document but remain as sceptical as ever.
1. KQ has destroyed value for the last 10 years. It has issued new equity, taken loans to no avail. It is a mismanaged institution out to cannibalise assets of another parastal so as to pay off its own debts.
2. KQ is a listed public company but wants to enjoy the benefits of a government owned institution. It wants to have its cake and eat it. KQ's privatization based on Thatchernomics model was hailed as the most successful of its time. It went on to raise equity and debt capital based on its listed status. The Company has exhausted corporate goodwill at the nse and no longer wants to be listed.
3. KQ cannot have its cake and eat it. It cannot enjoy benefits of liberal market economics and still get GOK protection. Let us accept that privatization did not work for KQ, drop the current model and go for whatever works.
4. No company dies without ceremony. For KQ the ceremony will be liquidation, GOK to pay off sovereign guarantees.
5. Treasury can then go on to incorporate a new airline, fully governmemt owned and controlled to be driver of Kenya GDP blah blah blah
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