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Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery blames broker for Government tenders

Internal security Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery addresses news reporters before holding security meeting with Mombasa police bosses at Uhuru ni Kazi building in Mombasa. He wants more tourists to visit Kenya as security is improving. 29th August 2015. [Photo/Omondi Onyango/Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery (pictured) yesterday complained that a powerful broker has been “shuttling” between President Kenyatta’s office at Harambee House and that of his deputy William Ruto at Harambee House Annex attempting to influence multi-billion-shilling tenders.

The confession that there was an outsider in Government who was powerful enough to intimidate the Cabinet secretary – a former military general —is puzzling and rekindles the public declaration by the President some months ago that the Office of the President was a bastion of corruption in Government.

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