EDITORIAL: Posta must avoid getting into money-losing ventures

It is inevitable that the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) will need to re-invent itself to survive this digital era, but venturing into public transport business was a wrong-headed idea that it has now belatedly dropped.  In the late 1990s, PCK was hived off the Kenya Posts & Telecommunications Corporation—together with Telkom Kenya and the current Communications Authority.

Even at the time of its separation from the tottering giant, it was still grappling with irrelevancy. Indeed, one of the major Anglo Leasing scandals, the supply of internet via satellite to post offices, arose from this struggle for relevance.