Tycoon strangely separates business from politics

An influential entrepreneur seems to know exactly how to keep personal and business relationships separate. Perhaps, being a successful businessman requires you to separate work from friendship. The man, believed to be a billionaire, has come out publicly to declare his preferred presidential aspirant. Ironically, his business, which is involved somehow in political work, doesn't involve his preferred choice. Ironically, the rival presidential hopeful is getting all the limelight.  The tycoon is believed to be funding the campaigns of his preferred choice but those in the know are wondering why the man’s business seems to be sending a different signal. 

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An international firm offering training in a critical sector has threatened to leave the country over what it terms frustrations by leaders of a government agency. The firm had set up a base in northern Kenya and had started operations only to learn officials of the agency were not keen to engage them further. Why?  Their contract was signed by former leaders at the department. The contract worth billions of shillings is now likely to go to waste because of the differences. The managers of the firm have since written to President Uhuru Kenyatta seeking his attention. It boils down to what insiders term corruption.

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Did an MP confuse journalists for engineers or was it just a case of a leader speaking for the sake of saying something? Well, journalists who had accompanied a parliamentary committee to inspect a development project were left confused when a legislator kept directing questions at them. Engineers overseeing the project were on site but the female lawmaker, while criticising the project, kept asking journalists for explanations. The MP's queries went unanswered but that did not stop her from further interrogating journalists covering the event. All this time, the people who presumably had answers to the questions watched in disbelief, some shaking their heads.

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A senator and an MP allied to one of the leading lights in a fledging coalition were on Tuesday morning overheard complaining that it was time they changed tack on forcing their presidential candidate’s hand on who becomes his running mate. The two politicians complained that hard-lining and tough public demands did not serve them well when they pledged to have their man be the coalition’s flagbearer. They say they are not sure that same approach would be effective in making the big man be the deputy captain. Only time will tell if it works this time around.

(Edited by V. Graham)

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