A wanted illegal immigrant was recently overheard saying he has enough money to allegedly pay a top government official to help him legalise his papers. This is despite the fact he has been linked to narcotics business and money laundering. The man’s partners were arrested and deported over the illegal activities. His handlers are said to have reached the official who has pledged to help at an exorbitant fee. Talk of the power of money. Those tasked in checking his background have vowed to expose those helping the man from an Asian country.
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Panic has gripped an institution of higher learning after the management got wind of an impending raid by the taxman over failure to remit statutory deductions. An insider told Corridors that the institution is a top defaulter and has not been reemitting Pay as You Earn, National Hospital Insurance Fund and bank and Sacco loans. The looming inspection comes hot on the heels of an audit report that laid bare details of how some institutions of higher learning have been deducting money from their staff but not remitting the money to relevant agencies.
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Still on education institutions, trouble is brewing at a top university that ideally ought to be setting the pace for its numerous offshoots to emulate. The cause of the simmering disquiet traces its roots to alleged distortion of the institution’s administrative and management structure orchestrated within. One of the faces behind there organisation was heard bragging that not even the occupant of the House on the Hill can uproot him from his perch at the university.
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A county boss serving his first term in Western part of the country is said to have turned himself into a tenderpreneur, with his mistress fronting a number of companies behind the multi-million tenders in the devolved unit. The man who campaigned on a platform of reforms is apparently dishing millions of county tenders to the mistress who is no stranger to controversy. Senior county officials who have got wind of the underhand dealings are now set to have a word with the county’s First Lady just to stop the rip off that they believe will make the man a one-term governor.