Reports that the process of kicking out Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta is gaining momentum has sent his people into a spin. Some of the Deputy Prime Minister's people have reportedly been making overtures to allies of Uhuru's vice chair in Kanu, Gideon Moi, to try and reduce the hostility. Uhuru's allies are telling their rivals that instead of having a showdown in Naivasha this weekend they should form an alliance. In only a few hours it will be known whether Uhuru's overtures have been successful or not.
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An MP who sits on a parliamentary committee loudly rejected Central Bank governor Njuguna Ndung'u’s explanation that five banks were responsible for the shilling’s plunge against the dollar. The MP blamed the shilling's fall on a bank that he claimed had bought Sh10 billion worth of dollars when the rate was Sh83. The bank allegedly held on to the dollars and only offloaded them into the market when the exchange rate had risen to Sh107. He alleged the bank shared the Sh4 billion it made with some officials from Treasury and some CBK mandarins.
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A general manager in one of the parastatal under the ministry of Tourism is in the cross hairs of his staff who accuse him of being greedy and disloyal. The staff say the GM has taken advantage of the absence of a substantive board of directors to monitor his work and has been “moonlighting” for another parastatal within the same ministry. Coincidentally, nearly all the parastatals under the ministry do not have substantive boards.
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A top judicial officer does not want to take credit for something a keen city resident has observed – that statues of founding President Jomo Kenyatta at the KICC and Parliament buildings have their backs to the Judiciary and Parliament. However, the judicial officer sees some kind of symbolism in this since he believes Mzee Kenyatta worked flat out to emasculate the two institutions during his presidency. But it could also be that those who positioned the statue at the KICC did not think beyond the fact that he should look towards Parliament, which is where he was laid to rest eventually. Perhaps they did not realise his back would be turned to the Law Courts!
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