DID President Uhuru Kenyatta recently bar a Cabinet Secretary from travelling abroad? Corridors is informed the President declined to grant the CS permission to visit China after getting intelligence he was up to no good. The CS is said to have contacted directors of a Chinese company for a secret meeting about a plum construction tender. It is claimed the CS, who is not in charge of the line ministry, wanted to hold private talks with the firm, hoping to influence the award of the tender now at the technical evaluation level. The President is said to have been briefed about the CS’s underhand deals and the irrelevance of his trip and instructed Head of the Public Service Joseph Kinyua to decline the travel request.
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A former Rift Valley governor who had started assembling his campaign personnel for an epic comeback in 2022 has suddenly disbanded his think tank. The ex-chief dissolved the team two weeks ago, leaving his close associates and financiers in utter shock and disbelief. Insiders disclosed to Corridors the man disbanded the team soon after meeting his successor. It is not clear why he dissolved the team that had already started grassroots mobilisation, but moles say the former county boss could have been promised ‘business’ by his successor.
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STILL on county matters, a Nyanza governor whose administration has become a constant in financial queries by the Auditor General has panicked. A recent report by the public watchdog threw the governor and his administration into a spin after it emerged that a firm known for receiving lucrative contracts was in the eye of a storm. The firm is allegedly owned by the governor’s sister-in-law and was awarded plum contracts to maintain roads. What broke the camel’s back is the fact that the tender was single-sourced, breaching procurement laws. Many county contractors have been protesting undue influence in awarding tenders to the firm. It is only a matter of days before the firm and its directors are unmasked.
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A state agency in the Agriculture sector could soon be engulfed by debts largely attributed to the CEO’sinefficiencies and expensive lifestyle. Corridors is aware the CEO has allocated himself three high-end cars and is hiring choppers over the weekend while travelling home. The CEO who has milked the agency for four years is also said to be dishing out bribes and other incentives to the board as he perpetuates one of the most daring rip-offs at the parastatal. Furthermore, his wife has been allocated an official vehicle for her personal use. The vehicle now has a private number plate.
