Saturday, May 25, 2013

Corridors of Power

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY POLITICAL DESK
A chairman of one of the commissions who has gained a reputation for being amorous was once locked up in a police cell at the instigation of the husband of one of the woman he was seeing at the time. But even while he was in the police cells, he managed to convince the cops to let him attend to some of his cellmates who were sick. The man was later released without being charged. But his sojourn in the police cells never had an impact when he was being considered for appointment as adultery is not a crime in the country's penal code!
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The release of documents surrounding the "Hustler's Jet" procurement has sent ripples in the government with civil servants exchanging accusations and counter-accusations about who leaked the documents which formed the basis of the story first broken by the Sunday Nation. Internal investigations to locate the 'leak' have been going and it is just a matter of time before a new chapter is written in the ongoing saga surrounding the jet.
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Some National Integration and Cohesion Commission members are quietly lobbying relevant government officials and ministries to have their term extended for another six years. A previous attempt to persuade the then Justice minister Eugene Wamalwa amend the Act to allow the commissioners to serve a second six-year term was thwarted when the then permanent secretary advised him to reject the request. The commissioners haven't lost hope yet and are reaching out to some people in the Uhuru administration to plead their case.
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There are scores of petitions filed by losers in the last election who cannot reconcile themselves to the fact that they were unsuccessful. A Catholic priest recently complained that he was approached by an unsuccessful aspirant for the senate who wanted him to sign a false statement implicating his rival who eventually won the election. The priest refused and in no uncertain terms, told off the man's lawyers for making such a proposal.

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