Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Corridors of Power


Corridors of Power

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The Orange Women Democrats delegates conference held at the Bomas of Kenya over the weekend had some dramatic moments. We are told that one of the female MPs present accosted a colleague — an assistant minister — accusing her of undermining her role in the ODM leadership. The assistant minister's bodyguards had to step in to ensure the altercation did not degenerate any further.
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A senior officer in Job Group U at Transcom House in Community Hill, Nairobi, has been throwing his weight around and generally behaving badly. The officer has earned the reputation of publicly dressing down other senior civil servants in front of their subordinates. The height of his arrogance is his demand that nobody should ride in the VIP lift with him. He is known to order colleagues who dared enter the lift to get out so that he rides in solitary splendour!
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The unholy alliance between some senior policemen and suspected drug traffickers does not seem to be coming to an end soon — despite media exposes and vehement denials by the police. We are told the house of a foreigner who came to Kenya on a visitor's visa five years ago is under a 24-hour guard provided by — wait for it — two Administration Police officers. This has raised concerns among the APs in Mombasa.
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Did William Ruto ask Cyrus Jirongo to leave URP? We are told the Eldoret North MP was fed up by the Lugari MP's unending demands that he be allowed to bring in his people into the URP secretariat. Jirongo reportedly also demanded that plans be put in place for the party to hold grassroots polls and presidential primaries — only to be advised that the presidential ticket was reserved for Ruto. Confronted by Jirongo, Ruto is said to have told him to establish his own party "instead of complaining everyday about everything".

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