This archive item says a section of Jubilee MPs was discussing whether to remove Aden Duale as Majority Leader in the National Assembly. The reported anger centered on amendments said to have been slipped into the Co-operative Societies Act, with MPs from the Mt Kenya region among those said to be unhappy with Duale’s role.
Trade and Co-operatives CS Peter Munya had already said he was not aware of the changes and that his office did not originate them. The article says some of the grounds for Duale’s removal had been leaked, but it did not confirm whether the push would succeed.
In a separate political gossip item, a former legislator from western Kenya was said to have stunned shoppers at a supermarket after making a large purchase of household goods. The source described him as not being known for wealth or flamboyance, but said he paid with a wad of new banknotes and later waited at the loading bay for sofa sets and other furniture to be packed into a lorry.
The archive also reports that a governor in South Nyanza was under pressure to dismiss his chief of staff over an alleged fraud involving more than Sh6 million meant for per diems. The money was said to cover officers who attended the recently concluded Lake Region Economic Block conference in Bomet.
According to the item, county executive members in charge of Tourism and Agriculture confronted the official after their drivers were allegedly not paid despite the budget including allowances for all drivers over four days. The chief of staff was said to have acted with the governor’s economic adviser in the alleged scheme.
Elsewhere in Nyanza, a senior politician said to have strong ties to influential Mt Kenya figures linked to State House was reported to have struck a deal two weeks earlier at a birthday party in an exclusive Nairobi club. He allegedly complained that a county governor was harassing him, and was told that the State would handle the matter.
The source further says the governor was already facing harassment and was under investigation for corruption.
