Cutting Edge

By WATCHMAN
Posted  Friday, July 22  2011 at  22:08

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CASH COWS. Many of the police roadblocks on highways are more of “cash check points” for the officers, says Kiplimo Kosgey.

Corruption in the traffic police department, he adds, can only be uprooted by privatising it.

“I do not think one needs to go to Kiganjo Police College to be able to detect a defective vehicle, an expired insurance sticker or a bald tyre. These are common sense things that have been turned into money minting avenues by traffic police. A private company will care about its reputation to secure a contract renewal.”

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DEAD LINE. A resident of Muguga Green at Westlands, Nairobi, Nita Shah, is appealing to Telkom Orange to fix her landline, No 4442680, which has been out of order for six months.

And it is not like Nita has just sat back and waited for the good Telkom technicians to restore service when they can. She has been calling customer care and has several times been given assurances that somebody will be sent over to work on the line, but nothing has happened to date.

Nita’s more reliable contact is Tel 2223050.

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BONGA POINTS. Safaricom has noted S. Enos’s cry and other subscribers’ complaints on just how easy it is for one to lose one’s Bonga points through the recently-introduced transfer system.

CEO Bob Collymore says the company is already working on improving the functionality of the popular customer reward scheme’s security. In the meantime, the CEO adds, all they can do is to advise the subscribers to secure their handsets and SIM cards using either a password or PIN to keep the fraudsters at bay.

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TIMES TOWER. The Kenya Revenue Authority may be surpassing its revenue collection targets year after year but its provision of services is not only wanting, but also rather sloppy, says David Karanja.

His grouse stems from delay in issuing his driving licence, which he applied for nearly a year ago.

“Since September last year and despite numerous trips to their Times Tower headquarters in Nairobi, I still don’t have the document,” moans David, whose contact is Tel 0771447955 or dkaranchu@yaoo.com.

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NAME CHANGE. The call for the change of name of the national soccer team, Harambee Stars, is something Steven Nangubo fully supports and wants to see linked to efforts to promote tourism.

His favourite name is Kenya Wild Buffaloes. “Imagine people walking around with portraits of a charging buffalo! It will be so very nice,” says Steven, who would want the Harambee name scrapped immediately.

His contact is stevennangubo@yahoo.co.uk.

Have a bullish day, won’t you!