Or as Prof Magoha (KNEC) opined, 'Culture can destroy a great strategy'.

There are underlying issues affecting people in KQ. It is not about culture. How long have you been told here that hundreds of engineers resigned long ago and yet the management does nothing at all to address the issue.

Shindwe

Ni kweli. Kizungu ilikuja kwa meli.

Mzee Tipos had a prize bull. Sahiwal cross. Almost a tonne in weight. Height of an adult man at the hump, Smooth hide, best in the region. The bull won him awards at the breeders' exhibition. Other farmers lined up to have their cows serviced by the bull.

Then misfortune struck. The bull stopped mounting cows. Grazing was a problem. Bull became irritable. It started losing weight.

Mzee Tipos got the best vets available in the county. They prescribed drugs, revolutionary feeds and supplements. But the bull's condition did not improve. It got worse.

After a couple of months, as the former prize bull lay emaciated and dying in the pasture, the herdsman made a startling discovery. The bull was infested by parasites. The vet confirmed that indeed parasites had attacked all internal and external organs of the bull including the head, the gut, the feet and the skin. The infestation was too severe to be treated. If only it had been caught earlier!

Despite his love for the Bull, Mzee Tipos made the decision to incinerate the bull to put it out of misery and save the rest of the herd from parasites.

KQ is the prize bull that got attacked by all manner of parasites... management, staff, tenderprenuers. The company is dead. All prescriptions have failed. But some parasites still hang on even as the company is insolvent. The only logical approach to get rid of the parasites is to liquidate the company. Save taxpayers' money. Start a new airline with a competitive rather than self cannibalistic culture.