Corridors of Power

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY POLITICAL DESK

Is there an attempt to force Safaricom to drop a deal with IEBC to transmit results on election day? Safaricom is providing some of the critical infrastructure IEBC will use to relay results from polling stations countrywide and is rumoured to be under pressure to drop the deal. One of those involved in the plan is a relative of a senior Central Kenya politician, who is known to be a technology wizard and is alleged to work for the National Intelligence Service. The man has previously been involved in tracing some of the ICC witnesses and is said to have access to some of the IEBC data.

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 Is it mere propaganda or there is truth to it? Some unknown people have edited widely distributed a paper that contains political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi's tyranny of numbers to show that there is a plan by TNA to get rid of  Jubilee running mate William Ruto if the alliance wins the elections. A document sent to Corridors of Power on Thursday, which Ngunyi has categorically denied knowledge of, claims that Ruto is "a very ambitious and abrasive person who will want a lot of say in the running of the government and we risk having two centres of power". According to the document, which contains glaring spelling mistakes, the plan will be to find ways of fast-tracking some of the land cases Ruto is facing and forcing him to step aside. Once that happens Ruto will be replaced by former Mvita MP Najib Balala who is described as weak and friendly. To collapse the 50-50 power sharing deal with URP, the purported plan is proposing that TNA uses Ruto's enemies to reject all his nominees in parliament.

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Who was exerting pressure on the National Council of Churches Secretary General Canon Peter Karanja to withdraw or disown his statement warning that it will be difficult for Jubilee Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta to run the government from the Hague. Uhuru and his running mate William Ruto are both facing charges of crimes against Humanity. Once the statement was made NCCK leaders went over drive to try and kill the story citing pressure from "some quarters".