On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Job Njogu<jnjogu@gmail.com> wrote:
The only way to avoid loosing the bundle is to topup some more befor the current one expires.
Let us interrogate and reflect this 'expiry' argument just a little... Suppose Safaricom crew has for a long period of time been negotiating for 1.2 billion Rand cash injection way down in the South. They are lucky to get it and close the deal with the likes of Barclays Capital, Absa Bank and CFC Stanbic. All happy decide to spend a week, or two, touring the great land of our brothers. Then they board a KQ plane and safely land at JKIA. They are asked by customs officials to pay for some imported items, or excess luggage - not a problem since they got shillings 11B. But alas, the customs official looks at them amusedly saying, "wacheni mchezo, angalieni expiry date on those notes." Like in Zim, unfortunately, their dole just expired jana... Yet they still have to repay the loan they just got. Would they be justified to complain about currency expiry dates? If not, why should they expect us to accept 'expiry' of Kenya money, paid to them in advance, loaded as airtime, or 'bundles' or whatever. Unless Kenya money also expires, the argument is simply wrong... regards,