The top lawyer and a businessman who nearly came to blows at the maternity bedside of a beautiful 20-something young woman who had made each of them believe was the father of her child are still licking their wounded egos after she admitted that a young man visiting her at the time was really the baby daddy. The lawyer has since withdrawn a pick-up double cab which he had bought for the young woman and according to his friends, he is in the process of recovering other items and goods he had "invested' in the young woman during their affair.
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Voters' card and ID-card buying are tactics that Kenyan politicians have been known to engage in since the advent of multi-party politics. This is usually done to deny supporters of a rival candidate from voting in their choice for whatever electoral post. Our moles tell us that in Nyeri, one of the candidates has suspended grassroots campaign and has instead gone into overdrive buying out the IDs of voters in his rival's stronghold. The man is determined to use his wealth and influence to get 'elected' through any means possible.
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In what is either a sign of misguided optimism or an inflated sense of ego one of the candidates in the Embakasi East parliamentary seat has been going round the constituency thanking people for voting for him. The befuddled electorate are wondering whether the man is not tempting fate through his display of confidence in the outcome of Monday's election.
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Still on elections, the campaign period officially comes to an end tomorrow but several candidates have been wracking their brains to come up with ways to still 'campaign' none the actual voting day. The law states it is an election crime to campaign or in any way or manner be seen to be pushing the cause of a candidate in the polling stations. He has been promising the electorate all manner of goodies if they can prove they have voted for him. All he asks is that they use their phones to take a photo of their marked ballot as proof that they voted for him and then he gives them what is due to them. Question is, what guarantee is there that the candidate will not renege on this promise once the people vote for him? It will be difficult to prove a crime—bribery of voters— has been committed!
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