A FORMER LAWMAKER who landed a state job last year is considering quitting. The official has been lamenting the docket does not give him the 'rewards' he needs as his office is not properly funded to manage his hangers-on. Attempts to push the board and CEO of the agency to allocate funds for his 'daily use' have hit a snag. Known for having a taste for pricey things and a highflying lifestyle, the politician hopes a miracle happens to enhance his budget from the entity. He has been telling all who care to listen that he wants to leave but faces the headache of how to get another job.
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A POLITICAL PARTY "expert" can't stop testifying how God saved him from impending wrath after he trusted his gut not to travel to Addis Ababa as part of the entourage to the AUC elections last Saturday. The man had been asked to be part of the team but found a way out of it. But with the disappointing results, he says he breathed a sigh of relief as he would have been sidelined in any celebration in town and would have lost favours. The man prides himself in always following his gut feeling when making political decisions and in this case he got it right.
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A FORMER VOCAL governor, who now sits in a powerful national policymaking agency, has dumped a county chief he had endorsed to succeed him, and is secretly campaigning for the county speaker for the top seat in the next election. Word has it the ex-governor is sidelining the current man in the county's political affairs, despite having been his chief campaigner and financier in 2022. We are told this has brought tension in their party, threatening to dismantle its network in the region. The former governor is said to have settled for the speaker because he is his business associate. He is rumoured to be forging new alliances to support his new ally.
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STILL ON EX-COUNTY chiefs, is it flying phobia or just paranoia that someone could be after his life? That is the question nitpickers around the former governor of a major county are asking. The man always tells everyone that he will never use an aeroplane for domestic flights, however long the distance is. To overcome the challenge, he starts his journeys early on the road. He says he has stuck to the decision he made from his days as the inaugural governor of the strategic county.
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