Corridors of Power

Is the Parliamentary Service Commission running short of employees or is it sheer incompetence, laziness or inefficiency? Those who keenly follow the National Assembly website complain that it takes weeks for the Hansard to be posted when previously it used to take just a day or two. Worse still, the committee sitting schedules are never posted on time. Instead of posting the schedule of meetings every Mondays as it previously used to happen, now the staff are posting the schedule or Wednesday which is too late for any members of the public interested in attending these public hearings. Madam Florence Atenyo- Abonyo, the director of committee services needs to get her team to up their game.

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A senior government official is in the spotlight for turning his office into a veritable shylock's den. He deliberately delayed paying contract staff for several months and has been advancing 'soft loans' to them to enable them meet their financial needs. Unknown to the staff, the man has been recording all these 'soft loans' in a book and has been charging interest. When the contract staff payment was finally released, it unfortunately had to pass through the government official who not only deducted the 'soft loans' he had advanced to the staff but also the exorbitant interest he had been charging. Only after they agreed to the deductions did the man release the money to the staff.  It seems the man's avaricious tendencies are well known as he demands payment for any monies advanced to drivers and bodyguards traveling out of office on official duties. The question is, since such imprestmustbe accounted for, why is the man insisting on being paid? And is the deliberate delay inlaying contract staff just a way of feeding his shylock business?

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Jubilee Alliance operatives never stop thinking up new ways to get the attention of their principals. This time round, they want to take credit for IEBC's decision to nullify Kethi Kilonzo's nomination as a candidate for the Makueni senate seat. On Monday evening one of them proposed that they should prepare a report for President Uhuru Kenyatta detailing how they were able to "diffuse" Cord's influence in Makueni. Two of them said the report should indicate they were they ones who blew the whistle on Kethi's voter registration conundrum.

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