SIASA ZA KENYA
When Simeon Nyachae fixes himself in a rut, he resorts to what he knows best — full page newspaper adverts. And so he has predictably done over the tiff between him and Government Spokesman Alfred Mutua. This time, the long-serving bureaucrat has directed his tirade at journalists for allegedly protecting Mutua, "a professional colleague". Surely, is this the view of politicians: That Mutua is just a journalist? For heaven’s sake the man is a PS!
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In the danger of sounding like a stuck juke box, Palaver says Kenya has only one city and one City Council — Nairobi. Mombasa and Kisumu are not cities. They are municipal councils and until they get charters to proclaim them cities, they never will be. A report released on Tuesday rumbles on about poor services in three cities! There are procedures to be fulfilled before city status can be conferred. You just don’t wake up and declare a conglomeration of buildings a city.
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How times change even when they appear to remain the same. At a police roadblock in Garissa, officers stop the vehicles of two Assistant ministers and a Permanent Secretary and search and frisk the Government officials for illegal arms. And if you thought the OCPD would be apologetic over this, you are wrong. He, in fact, commends his juniors for a job well and thoroughly done.
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How fickle is political support? A while ago, one Ken Wafula of Eldoret was Musikari Kombo’s co-author on matters Ford-Kenya, including weighty policy issues. And it was apt as he passed as the party’s secretary for publicity. Then, out of the blue, Wafula writes Ford-Kenya’s and Kombo’s political obituary. Before long, he has sweet words for Musalia Mudavadi, calling him the glue ODM-Kenya needs to stick together and win.
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If politicians have nothing to hide over Mungiki, why do they rush to court to seek anticipatory bail? And courts oblige. When will they strike a blow for ills in society?
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And finally …
As the world was rivetted by the Paul Wolfowitz scandal, Kenyans may have forgotten that we, too, have our own Wolfowitz. He extended favours to a sweetheart at a watchdog agency and was shown the door for it.
