Corridors of Power

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY POLITICAL DESK

A Cabinet minister is at logger heads with his PS after the minister demanded millions of shillings to fund his re-election campaigns. The man has been arguing with the PS almost every day for the last two weeks, He insists the PS should find him the funds to print his campaign merchandise and facilitate his movement as he seeks votes. The PS has stood his ground and insisted there is no way he will take public funds to finance an election campaign. The minister has now resorted to threatening the PS with the sack if he does not comply. The PS now plans to inform his boss, Head of Public Service Francis Kimemia, about his tribulations.

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The launch of the harmonised Jubilee manifesto yesterday at Kasarani Gymnasium included a ceremony that seemingly contradicted one of the alliance's key campaign agendas — passing the leadership baton to the younger generation ("analogue to digital").  In the dramatised ceremony, a young boy brought in a copy of the manifesto and passed it on to a slightly older girl. She in turn passed it on to the older generation. Was that a goof or is Jubilee really 'digital to analogue'?

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Despite the colourful and elaborate ceremony at Kasarani yesterday, we are told by Jubilee insiders that all is not well. Apparently, some people from the TNA side of the coalition are unhappy with the influence the URP leader is beginning to exercise. Those in the know have whispered to Corridors that Ruto is becoming more and more influential and is making key decisions.

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A top cop at Industrial Area police station was overheard recently bragging that he will not abide with the Court order to release two Toyota-Kenya vehicles. The cars were repossessed from a well-known wheeler-dealer who claims to wine and dine with the who's who not only in Kenya but also in the wider East Africa. The top cop said to his civilian friend within the earshot of patrons in a South C bar that neither the new police chief, nor the chair of the police oversight commission, nor the PS can order him to release the vehicles.