Angry party honcho refuses to issue statement on murder of Ojwang

DID THE SPOKESPERSON of a popular party refuse to issue a statement on an important matter currently on the tongue of every Kenyan? Corridors of Power has learned that the controversial lawmaker, tired of repeatedly condemning and calling for investigations, rejected calls from the party rank and file to sign a statement following the murder of a social media influencer, forcing party mandarins to supposedly issue a statement in the name of the party leader. It remains to be seen what action will be taken against the politician for what his critics purportedly call abdication of duty.

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A TOP GOVERNMENT official is in the spotlight over how he runs his powerful office. Why? The man, who not long ago was railing at the government for fostering ethnic balkanisation, has reportedly packed people from his ethnic community in almost every opening in his docket. So brazen is the man that he allegedly speaks his mother tongue with his staff, unbothered that it is a public office where people from different parts of the country need service. Maybe the agitations are all about power, not ideologies after all.

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STILL ON MATTERS government, a senior official reportedly “can't breathe” in the new power arrangement, despite holding a sizeable portfolio. We are told that after the disbandment of an outfit associated with him and the co-optation of opposition luminaries, the man with presidential ambitions allegedly doesn't see a bright future even though his present is glittering. It seems he must act fast to redeem his dwindling fortunes.

*************JUST WHY HAS a top constitutional office holder not become available for press interviews, almost two years since ascending to his all-powerful office? The man, whose appointment was overshadowed by a lot of machinations and influence peddling, has flatly rejected efforts by scribes to get him to answer tough questions on his record or strategic direction of the all-important agency he leads. In fact, his close colleagues at the agency claim he is brazen in holding forte for a power name, and that he has a lot in his closet that could be unearthed if his feet were to be held to the fire.