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Wangusi: The day I defied an ‘order from above’ to fund 2017 polls

Outgoing Communication Authority of Kenya Director General Francis Wangusi.

A few months to the 2017 General Election, a strange call was placed from a senior government official to the Communications Authority of Kenya.

Campaigns were in high gear and the caller, a Permanent Secretary, wanted the CA to contribute funds to the State campaign machinery.

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