From the grapevine

By John Gerezani

Let’s take it easy today my good people and hear what the grapevine has for you.

One has to give way and l can assure you that it’s not the new airport that is going to do that by any stretch of imagination.

Nyali Barracks came up to cover Moi International Airport just as Moi Barracks covers the Eldoret Airport and Embakasi Garrison covers JKIA.

It’s therefore just a matter of time before Gen Karangi comes calling and it will not be to chew fish or gawk at the well-endowed mamaahs of the lake.

Land for barracks

C’mon where is the land to put up a barracks in Kisumu or will a portion of the hyacinth infested lake be reclaimed for the purpose? Sahau!

My bird informs me that the infamous Kodiaga, as it currently stands, may be breathing its last since its strategic and expansive hillside as well as closeness to the new airport makes it ideal for defence purposes.

The odds that Kodiaga will be turned into barracks are so high that many are reading the recent statement by Dr Ludeki Chweya that gava intends to release up to half the current inmate population through the Power of Mercy Committee in that light.

My conspiracy theory is that once the other netis are sufficiently emptied then netizens and staffers in Kodiaga will be relocated as funds running into billions are sought to build a new ultra-maximum security neti either at Manyani or K44.

My good people, in case you are travelling in Maa land and spot some lanky bouncing smarter chasing after village girls, chances are that you will have bumped into the Bull of Kamiti. My sources inform me that after our last expose about the toilet shagging gun drama involving a netizen, a pissed off Wanini ordered an independent probe, which by and large validated every issue we raised. She subsequently found the Bull and his two smarter acolytes surplus to the image of the county she heads and got them transferred pap!

Talking of transfers, my HQ bird informs me that a mini earthquake that saw the recently appointed Director of Reforms re-deployed to head a province was effected. Some dudes were moved on the chessboard but what caught my attention were claims that some well connected sonkos used their political godfathers to zunguka and kata their transfers.

I am told of one who has allegedly kataard his transfer twice within a year, first to North Eastern and the most recent one to HQ.

Alas!! There seem to be some sacred permanent heads of mission and your guess is as good as mine as to why fiefdoms are allowed to flourish.

As usual Wanini is still trailblazing with her innovative reform initiatives and drawing in lots of partners from the NGO and corporate sectors in the process.

This Boma (Kenya High) alumni could have been the tinniest recruit in 1982 tukiwa kiwanja but her mates are all agreed that she was as hardworking and as determined as now. The girl has cut off loads of bureaucracy and introduced a results oriented people focussed management style predicated on the policy that nobody should be harassed or intimidated for doing the right thing at the right time.

This policy has spawned forth so much positivity that as many smarters in the Nairobi County are furthering their education as netizens are unleashing their innate potential. That the once unmanageable K44 has become a darling of the public and the press is a pointer to the teamwork she has built.

We are allowed to be vain today and so confess that many are taken by Wanini’s photogenic looks and model like height but be warned. The girl’s private life is just as exemplary as her public image.

Main catalyst

Finally a big thanks to my instructors at PSTC Ruiru for brow-beating common sense into our heads.

For those who don’t know, the recent bunch of NCO graduates are the most informed and could turn out to be the main catalysts in neti reforms. Having been chastised by the instructors for taking a back seat as Officers-in-Charge of netis run down institutions through corruption, favouritism, nepotism, mismanagement and ineptitude, this group has been mandated to take the bulls by the horn and holler for their rights are protected by the Constitution.

My free advice to all smarters is this: If you get dirt and its factual, go to a cyber or use your galfie’s phone and get intouch. You have my contact on page 2.