Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Corridors of Power



MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012 - 00:00 -- BY POLITICAL DESK
Eugene Wamalwa
Saboti Member of Parliament Eugene Wamalwa,2012 presidential aspirant.23-2-2010.Duncan Ndotono
Talk is rife in Trans Nzoia that Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa will vie for a parliamentary seat in Nairobi. Talk on the ground is that the youthful politician has gone too far with his partnership with Uhuru Kenyatta which they are not ready to support. Cabinet Minister Moses Wetangula is said to be gaining ground and has been urged to forge a national alliance with another politician who is not tribal.
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The acting director of National Industrial Training Authority, who had refused to vacate office for her successor was forced to take to heels after learning that the media was coming after her. The gracious lady, with the support of some board members, had threatened to stay put hoping that the Office of the President will intervene to confirm her. However, Labour minister John Munyes overlooked her after she failed to impress in the interviews and instead gazetted the much more qualified Patrick Omutia to the chagrin of the lady and a board member, who is a leading trade unionist. When Corridors reached her on phone, the lady declined to comment and referred us to the PS in the Labour ministry.
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Even before their tribulations in the hands of the police, the four MPs at the centre of the Baragoi crisis had their issues. On Thursday, Nominated MP Maison Leshoomo confronted MPs John Munyes, Josphat Nanok and Ekwe Ethuro within the precincts of Parliament and accused them of undermining her. They had just finished addressing their press, when the Leshoomo confronted them curtly telling them that she,too, was mourning. “My people have been killed, including my relatives,” she is said to have told them.
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The National Police Service Commission has come under fire for issuing public cautionary statements and threats on the information the public has brought before it regarding the candidates for the Inspector General of police and the deputy. NPSC’s action has left many baffled and wondering whether it 's acting on the whims of powerful forces to appoint a particular candidate to defeat police reforms. Some candidates and lobby groups now fear that the interviews that ended last week were all, but a public relations exercise by NPSC that has already made a decision on the candidates.

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