Corridors of Power Political Gossip

An aspirant in the Bomachoge by-elections, who was in the habit of dishing out free meals at his restaurant during the campaigns and was finally forced to shut the business, now feels cheated. The unsuccessful aspirant was overheard telling his friends at a restaurant on Chaka Road in Nairobi that some of his perceived supporters had the audacity to tell him to continue dishing out free food up to 2012 as a strategy to unseat the new MP-elect Simon Ogari.

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Corridor is wondering what is wrong with Prime Minister Raila Odinga's orderlies. On Wednesday night they beat up a KTN cameraman and blocked him from taking photographs at a bash in honour of the visiting Tanzanian Prime Minister. And on Tuesday, a top member of Raila's security manhandled other Cabinet minister's bodyguards at Orange House.

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We hear the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) advised President Kibaki that KACC director Aaron Ringera should not be reappointed on grounds that the public mood was against it. Instead, a little bird whispered to us, the President chose to listen to his political arm of ministers Mutula Kilonzo, Kiraitu Murungi and his special adviser Nick Wanjohi. We are now told the NSIS has advised that Ringera should not take up his position as a way of resolving the Parliament-Executive impasse.

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Do you remember the story of the jailer intimidating inmates at Kamiti Prison? We are told the jailer is using prisoners to construct a beach home at the Coast using excess funds requisitioned from the Consolidated Fund to repair prisons.