Saturday, November 3, 2012

Corridors of Power



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2012 - 00:00 -- BY POLITICAL DESK
Ngilu to launch campaign
Narc party leader Charity Ngilu at a press conference where she announced that she will launch her campaign on Sunday. Photo/Monicah Mwangi
On Wednesday morning, Water minister and presidential hopeful Charity Ngilu arrived at the Serena Hotel, Nairobi, at around 10.30 am in a sleek Prado with a private registration number though bearing the ministerial flag. She requested her driver and bodyguard to leave the vehicle as she answered a phone call while inside the car. Minutes later Mutito MP Kiema Kilonzo driving himself in a black Range Rover Vogue arrived and Ngilu at that point jumped out of her car and boarded Kiema’s occupying the front passenger seat. The two then left Serena and headed in the direction of State House while her official car headed towards CBD.
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Passengers on KQ flight 586 from Nairobi-Lubumbashi on Monday had an uneasy trip with a bad smell on the plane, which they endured up to Lubumbashi. Some told Corridors that first their scheduled flight was late and another plane was brought from the hangar to fly them to Lubumbashi. Minutes into the flight, a foul smell hit the plane making them very uncomfortable. The flight attendants reassured the passengers there was nothing wrong but the passengers insisted something was wrong. Just what was generating the foul smell on the plane?
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A leading presidential aspirant was overheard dismissing an equally influential presidential hopeful as "a fool". In a private conversation with some friends, the politician went ahead to write off the other man’s chances and promised not to form an alliance with him. The man said his colleague in the race has confined himself to his own county yet he is seeking the presidency of the Republic of Kenya. However, in public the two present a picture of friends and who can work out an alliance.
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Some unscrupulous officials at the Ministry of Lands have found a new way of swindling the public. With most of the services at Arthi House and other land registration offices across the country being automated to reduce corruption, some officers, especially those in the field, are demanding a minimum of Sh 2,500 which they say is for fuelling the ministry vehicles. This uncouth behaviour is rampant in Kericho.

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