Corridors of Power

Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:08 BY POLITICAL DESK

Katana Ngala

An accidental meeting over lunch between a TJRC commissioner and CID director Ndegwa Muhoro has been miscontrued by some of the commissioner's colleagues. The commissioner said the meeting was not planned but just happened when the two bumped into each other at the venue, although this coincided with the release to the ICC of a letter by the CID indicating that police would use evidence gathered at the truth hearings to investigate the Ocampo Six. The commissioner says he and the CID boss did not "discuss anything serious" and any of his colleagues saying otherwise were perpetrating “lies” against him.
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The North Rift MP whom we told you has been driving the CDF car was over the weekend stopped by police. But instead of being law-abiding, the man sped off. The MP who is reportedly doing badly financially is said to be using public transport to get to his constituency and once there, he takes up the vehicle bought with finances from the CDF.
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Owili Joseph who now owns the vehicle previously owned by Barack Obama Snr and which he was driving the day he died got so many calls on the day the Star published the story that his phone battery died. Most of the calls were from strangers who offered to "advise me" on how to make the most of the vehicle — a ramshackle Chevrolet pick-up.
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We hear the surrender of the Nairobi Mayor’s house by former Lands minister Katana Ngala last April was the inspiration behind the amnesty announcement made by PLO Lumumba on Tuesday. Ngala through his wife Isabella Vicky Nzalambi not only surrendered the title to the house but also agreed to pay some Sh2 million to Nairobi City Council as rent arrears. He agreed to pay the money in three equal monthly instalments as rent for the period February 28, 2003 to April 30, 2011.
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Last Saturday, the Star ran a story detailing the earnings of the various commissions and citing the National Cohesion and Interim Electoral Commission as earning the lowest. A source at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights  whispered to Corridors that indeed it is the KNCHR which gets the lowest pay . . .  “and all because the commission is perceived as anti-government.”