END OF WEEK SIASA
What goes round comes round! In 2002, Raila Odinga and company threw a spanner in the works of former President Moi’s Uhuru Kenyatta project. Has the turn come for Uhuru to throw a spanner in the ODM works? Ironically, Kanu had swallowed NDP, choked and vomited Narc. Has time come for LDP to be choked — fatally may be — in its attempt to swallow Kanu in ODM-Kenya?
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William Kabogo must have known by now that you can fly and soar in the skies, but a time comes when the chopper must land. And when his did, he learnt that John Michuki has the boys and the monopoly not just of violence and thuggery, but also to search and track down.
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Every cloud has a silver lining. Despite the political noise that jars our ears from morning till night — radio, TV, newspapers and bar talk — Kenya has won the UN Public Service Award for performance contracts in the Civil Service.
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The Eala controversy has interesting twists and turns. It’s emerging that it is not just Musikari Kombo’s ally Yvonne Khamati who will benefit from an ambassadorial crumb for missing the Arusha train. Friends of other Narc leaders, too, have benefited. The question begs: Who cut a deal for the others? Did more people walk to the Hill at night?
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And finally …
How easy it has become for MPs to pinpoint the specks in other people’s eyes even as they go blind with logs in theirs. They are up in arms over the salaries and perks expatriates at KPLC get. Is this in the assumption that no one else but they deserve superlative payslips? By the way, when will MPs raise questions why maids and watchmen earn Sh1,000?
