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Still about the reported ‘soft handshake’, we are told that a politico holding a top position in the regime has been having unending foul moods since signs became undeniable that the top leaders had buried the hatchet. Corridors of Power is apprised that the man grumbles endlessly to his friends that he had aligned resources to capture a key political constituency, a fact that has seen him do engagements remotely associated with his docket – only to be scuttled by the apparent new friendship. His drivers, security agents and office workers now bear the brunt of his gloomy moods.
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A businessman and politician from Nyanza is a man under siege after residents of the sub-county where he is eyeing a parliamentary seat realised his alleged fraudulent activities. The smooth talker with questionable academic credentials claims to be a lawyer and proclaims lofty promises that are too good to be true. However, he turns hostile and almost violent whenever asked by the locals about fulfilling those promises. The residents now say the man should kiss his parliamentary ambitions goodbye as his cover got blow nearly.
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Is a key official in an opposition party on his way to the Kenya Kwanza coalition? Some regime insiders were heard bragging that they had grabbed the man at a sensitive spot, given some issues the official has to deal with. With the evidence of some trouble in the man’s party, regime mandarins are gloating that he will not escape their dragnet.
