“Wololo yaye! May I video call you?” These were the words a politician from Western region texted a beauty he was chatting with on WhatsApp on Monday. The lady had checked on the politician, who responded that he was deeply embedded in the just-concluded Kibra by-election. However, when challenged by the lady on whether a candidate stood a chance of winning, he responded, "Keep that for another day, tuma picha (share a photo)." In seconds, a photo of the voluptuous beauty landed, mesmerising the politician. In chats seen by Corridors, the politician sweet-talked the lady to a date, which she graciously accepted.
A state corporation executive is said to have rebuffed a Cabinet Secretary’s attempts to establish an agency on grounds that it would usurp its core mandate and be a gift to his close friends in the docket. The CS has been put on the spot for his belligerent attitude of imposing obnoxious policies and persons to head key departments within the ministry. His recent attempts failed spectacularly and he was overheard vowing to push for the establishment of the agency by hook or crook. Observers in the docket say the CS could be looking for an avenue to mint money to finance his 2022 gubernatorial ambitions.
A senior security official at Parliament Buildings is the talk among junior officers who say he risks running down the crucial establishment’s security if something is not done to undo his excesses. The junior officers, in hush tones, wonder how the man landed the sensitive job even after having been fired from his two previous postings for incompetence and lack of integrity. The man publicly boasts of having pocketed two members of the Parliamentary Service Commission, hence being free from scrutiny. In one of the projects in his docket, he is said to have received Sh2 million kickbacks from a contractor who ended up doing a shoddy job.
Still in Parliament, it is indeed not in doubt that MPs have privileges. However, some workers feel some lawmakers have taken this right beyond the allowable limits, and to the extent of violating human dignity and decency. The workers, largely female, called out a member from one of the Nyanza counties who has the tendency of making sexual advances to any woman he finds in his company —more so when alone. Some of them whispered to Corridors that they may not wish to find themselves alone with the legislator, who happens to be reeking of alcohol most of the time — in the corridors or in the lifts.
