Corridors of Power

MPs have grown weary of vetting interviews. On Tuesday during the vetting of nominees to sit on the board that will vet judges, a member of the parliamentary committee was overheard loudly whispering that she had grown tired and also wanted to leave like the other members. Only about six MPs remained. Later, another member of the committee who appeared and left the vetting room complained to our tipster that the vetting had become a "routine conveyor belt clearance formality."
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A section of staff in Parliament are happy to see the suffering of a former member whom they say used to sit on their allowances whenever they travelled with his committee outside the country. The combative MP from Nyanza now revels with the staff and one of them quipped: "He now eats githeri with us here and I am very happy because he used to mistreat us so much during his days."
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We are informed that after the Star published a confidential UN report on crime in the country, there was panic in the institution. One email sent to us from UN stated:"You have highlighted specific information which will ensure that criminal elements now once again have the upper hand, and can ensure that they operate in a way which avoids mitigation procedures. May I suggest you focus on exposing government and police corruption rather than highlighting confidential aspects of security professionals hard gathered information". While an internal UN email stated:" We were extremely disappointed to note that one of our reports, which had a small readership amongst the senior security community in Nairobi, which was labelled confidential and which specifically advised against uncontrolled onward circulation, has apparently been leaked to The Star newspaper.  We would like all of you to consider, if you forwarded that message to somebody else, whether it may have resulted in the leaking of this document to the press.  In the light of this development, we will now have to re-examine whether such products can in the future be provided to our security partners in Kenya".