Corridors of Power

Monday, 25 April 2011 00:01 BY POLITICAL DESK

Some two city politicians have literally become conmen. The duo are banking on the weakness of a certain civil servant who panics whenever there is a security scare in the city. The two politicians, one from ODM and the other from PNU recently caused an artificial security scare, forcing the civil servant to release millions of shillings to one of them to suppress the 'insecurity'.
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Call them rogue journalists. Some seven well known journalists have been recruited into the National Security Intelligence Service’s reserve unit. The work assigned to the “mercenaries” is to monitor damaging stories against the government being worked on by their editors and fellow reporters and to spy on a group of selected editors and reporters considered “lethal” by the spyman. The hirelings stationed in leading media houses, our mole reveals, earn between Sh10,000-Sh20,000 per month for the dirty job. They also meet their agents at a restaurant along Muindi Mbingu street for daily briefing over coffee.
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A senior public servant working at Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s office will next year walk out of office without terminal benefits. The man, feared for his combative ways and arrogant encounters, refused to sign the procedural employment contract with the government after his appointment. The man’s term is expected to expire early next year.
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Radio presenter Joshua arap Sang's rise to fame due to his ICC case is worrying Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny. Some of Sang’s friends have told the vocal legislator that the Kass FM presenter, who is awaiting graduation from Moi University in December, may run against him if he is cleared at The Hague.