Corridors of power: Is Sonko punishing MCAs allied to Guyo?

Is Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko punishing MCAs who sided with Majority leader Abdi Guyo in the recent scuffle at City Hall? Some ward reps were overheard complaining that some stalls that they put up in their wards for their constituents were at the weekend earmarked for demolition by county officials. They said the marking of the structures happened only a day after the governor’s handlers threatened to make their ‘lives difficult’ for defying the governor. The county boss has been at loggerhead s with the vocal MCA who criticised his habit of suspending county officers.

A first-time Member of Parliament from Rift Valley is having a tough time keeping his home together after he impregnated a young woman, who is a close relative of his best friend in the House. The MP known for his acerbic tongue is conflicted as he tries to keep a tricky balance between his newfound flame and his submissive wife of many years. The MP, recently caught in a confrontation with state officers, is working overtime to keep his homelife steady and conjure means to get extra cash to finance his liaisons and maintain his declining fortunes. Corridors has learnt that his amorous ways left a trail of destruction and litany of heartbreaks in his previous office where he consolidated a reputation as a serial philanderer and unrepentant deadbeat dad.

Recently, we told you about a governor from Western who runs the county from a high-end hotel in Nairobi. Now, Corridors has been informed that the county chief has moved to a different a hotel outside the Central Business District. This is after it emerged that human rights organisations were planning to stage a demonstration outside the hotel to force the governor to go back to the county. The county boss has been splashing taxpayers' money in the five-star hotel despite having an official residence, built by the same taxpayers, in the rural county. He has been holding cabinet meetings and transacting other key business from Nairobi.

Are semi-autonomous agencies within the Environment ministry working as a collective team? Well, during various activities, some departments seem not to know what the parent ministry is doing. Or are they are simply fed up? A case in point was during a recent Nairobi clean-up and the recent tree-planting drive. Semi-autonomous state agencies often feel sidelined in most of the events if what was witnessed in the two instances was anything to go by. In the two scenarios, uniforms were not budgeted for some staff, forcing them to attend in their office wear, while others marched in corporate colours.