Out of touch MP moves in choppers as staff’s wallets run dry

Who is this MP who has clearly mistaken public service for a frequent-flyer programme? While he moves from meeting to meeting in choppers, his aides trudge along dusty roads, wallets empty and patience exhausted. Insiders allege that the lawmaker routinely keeps his team waiting for hours, only to breeze in and act surprised they are still around. Facilitation is rare, gratitude even rarer. Yet, in private, the MP supposedly boasts loudly that he is the region’s next political heavyweight. Maybe so. But before dreaming of a higher office, he might consider a radical idea: treating his own staff like human beings. After all, even political high-fliers eventually need people on the ground.

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A CEO of a major state agency has become the talk of the staff. He allegedly disappears whenever internal meetings shift to audit updates. Staff purportedly say the boss suddenly finds an excuse to be engaged elsewhere the moment numbers and accountability come up. Yet the same CEO is very enthusiastic about vision briefings where presentations are full of big dreams. Workers are now joking that the agency has two worlds: the world of audits, which he supposedly avoids, and the world of visions, which he loves.

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A spouse of a governor is reportedly giving protocol officers sleepless nights. The first lady is said to have taken charge of the husband's diary of managing his schedule. She is often seen at the secretary's desk whenever the boss is around and supposedly decides who sees him. Is there something that she knows that others don't? Maybe. For now, protocol officers just nod and adjust.

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Who is this Principal Secretary who has suddenly discovered the power of governors and county politics? The PS has been making frequent trips to his home county, officially to roll out national development programmes. But insiders say the visits come with many technical consultations that look more political than technical. A senator from the county who is also eyeing the seat recently joked that if the PS is not stopped early, his name might show up on the 2027 ballot. 

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