IS National Youth Service director general Matilda Sakwa really aware of a storm that is brewing at the agency’s headquarters along Thika Superhighway in Nairobi? Well, NYS personnel are said to be planning a protest against what they term a single diet. The youth say they have been feeding on rice for lunch and supper for the past one month. Sources say the agency has run out of maize flour it purchased a small quantity of the commodity. The mole, however, said the planned protest may not bear fruit and the current cohort may be forced to eat rice until they graduate because of ‘complicated procurement’ processes.
JUST how long will the management of Mumias East CDF under the patronage of National Assembly Majority Chief Whip Benjamin Washiali deny residents crucial ambulance services? Well, the constituency bought the facility to help residents in need of emergency health services. However, the ambulance has remained parked at Parliament Buildings for more than a month now. It not clear why the facility has not been taken to the constituency, despite millions of public money having been spent on it.
TENSION is brewing among top security personnel in Nyanza over the whereabouts of 20 officers from the Rapid Deployment Unit who were deployed to man the porous Kisumu-Nandi border. Corridors has been told that some senior officers in charge of the elite group have re-assigned some of the officers to man private installations and homes at a fee, leaving only 16 officers to guard the border that is contested by the two counties and has been the source of deadly interethnic clashes for years. Attempts by regional police chiefs to demand explanation on why the officers have been deployed to private homes has been futile as RDU bosses claim they are only answerable to the Nairobi office.
A governor from Western and an MP allied to Deputy President William Ruto gave a fundraiser attended by ODM chairman John Mbadi a wide berth last Sunday. The two were among the guests who had been invited but did not attend or even politely indicate why they could not be present. Sources, however, whispered to Corridors that the governor and the lawmaker — both elected on ODM tickets — opted to snub the harambee for fear of being exposed before the crowd. A local leader is said to have planned to tell the crowd that the two had dined with Ruto the night before and the money they were to contribute were handouts from the DP.
