WITH the campaigns over in Kibra, some youth who supported a candidate are now crying over allowances they were to get for acting as agents. One of the youth whispered to Corridors that at about 10pm, it had become clear that their candidate was not going to catch up with the front runners. Immediately this was clear, party officials who were coordinating their activities switched off their phones and went under with their allowances. Their candidate, who used to pick their calls, could also not be reached. Their next move is to go to the party headquarters.
A deputy governor from Nyanza was heard last week complaining bitterly to his friends about the delays by the EACC to apprehend his boss. The man said he was slowly giving up on attempts to have the anti-graft agency arrest and charge the county boss with corruption. Those in the know have told Corridors that the DG has been frequenting the EACC regional offices in Kisumu, supplying 'evidence' linking the governor to a multimillion-shilling scandal. The man, who has not been seeing eye to eye with his boss, has been hoping to take over once the governor is charged.
A popular coastal governor has fallen out with his friend—a first-time MP who he had promised to support to succeed him in 2022. An insider has intimated that the county chief recently told the legislator, whom he personally picked, campaigned for and bankrolled in 2017, that he will not support him in the next general election. The governor is said to have suddenly changed his mind and has pledged to back his deputy to succeed him. It is not clear why the change of heart, but the mole says the governor trusts his deputy to protect his business in the county.
THEY say only a fool refuses to change his or her mind. But the case of the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and Nairobi county government must be different as they have changed their minds a couple of times over the reopening of the Westlands roundabout. The roundabout was reopened on Sunday, causing a snarl-up on Waiyaki Way towards Westlands, the very reason for which it was closed in the first place. Stranded drivers were overheard wondering why the flip-flop at the roads agency and the county. Some whispered that a senior state official is keen on having it reopened because it is a shorter route to his residence. The closure of the roundabout is said to have been a huge success in traffic management.
