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Is a besieged county official scheming to join a rival party ahead of the 2027 polls? The officer was seen recently visiting a key state office with some of the politicians allied to the other party. They held a meeting with a senior officer of the agency for hours. While details of the closed-door meeting are scant, a small bird intimated to Corridors of Power that the politician is in the process of ditching the party that sponsored him for elections. The move is a Plan B, just in case things go south on a matter accosting him.
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Is a deputy governor from Western in such a serious financial mess? It seems so. The man has become the subject of endless talk among his political peers after word went out that auctioneers were on his neck. The man’s Nairobi office faces closure, so are other properties the auctioneers are eyeing. The politico has also been unable to pay his employees for months. Many of his friends are wondering how the man would put up a campaign for the governor's seat he is salivating for in the next election.
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The 'billionaire' landlord of a struggling mall on Mombasa Road, Nairobi, has been employing slumlord tactics to allegedly extort money from tenants. The businessman is under pressure from creditors due to delayed payments. To survive, he introduced parking levies, a decision we are told he is ruing since foot traffic has dropped drastically. The man is arbitrarily increasing rent and illegally shutting down utilities to force compliance. The few remaining tenants are quietly planning their exits.
