Palaver
Michael Jackson’s brothers Jermaine and Randy are unashamedly stealing his posthumous limelight. You see Randy is a polygamous man — with three wives to his name — and Jermaine needed a wife too. So he ‘stole’ one, Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza, plus her two kids from Randy. Not that Randy noticed. But now, he and Alejandra no longer an item and Jermaine has defaulted on paying child support of nearly Sh7.5 million. Obama’s ‘Mboys’ won’t renew his passport for re-entry back home to the US from Burkina Faso until he remits this cash. So Jermaine retains his front-row seat in Burkina Faso to study Laurent Gbagbo’s leadership style.
Franklin Bett has once served as an aide to former President Moi. He is now serving as a Kibaki Cabinet minister and has become the first Kenyan to put his name up for consideration as a possible running mate in the 2012 General Election. If his candidate wins, that, of course, means that he pitas kati kati and becomes Vice President of the Republic of Kenya from 2013, or thereabouts. How is that for ambition and guts!
PNU Vice Chairman George Nyamweya, Kigumo MP, Jamleck Kamau and Ndaragwa MP, Jeremiah Kioni are demanding that President Kibaki and Premier Raila use the window granted by KACC investigations into graft to trim the size of Cabinet. Palaver wonders whether they can also spare a prayer for Myanmar’s new Parliament that holds its first session in 22 years on January 31. The country boasts 1,154 MPs. No wonder Aung San Suu Kyi refused to tread this Junta "Highway To Democracy" and had to be kept locked up for "her own safety" for harbouring dangerous democratic thoughts.
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The British Beer & Pub Association is over the barrel with ecstasy. Reason? On the day Prince William marries Kate Middleton on April 29, pubs will be allowed to stay open until 1am for two nights to celebrate the royal wedding. No pub owner will ring the Last Order bell at 11pm to signal an end to the day’s drinking hours. Compare this to the poor hung-overed fellows in Kenyan courts the past week who had no bell to remind them it was 11pm and time to stagger home. Kenyans are reportedly demanding similar bells be installed here if they are to continue drinking along British drinking hours.
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