Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Corridors of Power

Monday, July 8, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY POLITICAL DESK
A top University in the country is still reeling from the shock of a smartly orchestrated fraud after one of its senior accountants carted away more than Sh200 million of students' tuition fees. Unknown to the university management and the students, the man who is now on the run operated a separate bank account and had devised unique mechanisms of depositing the cheques. The fraud would have persisted were it not for a recent audit commissioned by the institution that unearthed the scheme. The incident was reported to the police for investigations but the management had a rough time as it was put under intense interrogation for losing such a huge amount of money so easily. A source at the institution tells us that the top bosses may be fired for professional negligence.
===
A first time Cord MP from one of the constituencies in Nairobi was heard telling his colleagues that the only way to help teachers is to devolve all schools. “Perhaps the county governments may pay teachers well. What the Central government is doing is bad since they think teachers are just cheap jacks,” the MP told two of his colleagues and said he is going to table a motion in Parliament to devolve all schools. He also said he will raise funds and 'grease the hands' of Jubilee MPs to support his motion.
===
An MP, who is also the Director of Erad Suppliers and General Contractors, has been lobbying his colleagues in the Parliamentary Investment Committee to go easy on the company in the ongoing investigations over the supply of maize worth Sh500 million to the National Cereals and Produce Board. The MP wants the committee to rule in favour of the company in a dispute pitting it against NCPB. He was overheard telling colleagues that should things go bad, then his career and that of a cabinet secretary will be in serious jeopardy.
===
Corridors has it that a spy agency has prepared a report on how some people within the National Police Service Commission are being used by certain politicians to derail the police reforms stipulated in the Jubilee manifesto. According to the report by the National Intelligence Service, some commissioners have been holding numerous meeting with certain senior politicians who the agency has named in its report.
- See more at: http://the-star.co.ke/news/article-127219/corridors-power#sthash.sBzz7PtV.dpuf

No comments:

Post a Comment