In the early hours of Friday morning police burst into a room in a leading hotel in Nairobi to find the naked body of a tycoon sprawled naked on the floor and his woman companion cowering at corner. The man was dead and some white substance believed to be heroin was taken away by police for testing.
So who was the man?
The local newspapers described the dead man as a “political wheeler-dealer” who was instrumental in the 2002 KANU walkout of Rainbow luminaries.
My point here is that this story illustrates a political truism; somebody has to pay the bills. In current Kenyan politics it is mostly businessmen who get lucrative government contracts in return. If we are going to make a difference in 2007, the new government will have to start off without this sort of financing. In fact the people of Kenya should demand that sources of financing for political luminaries – especially those vying for the Presidency - be revealed.
Check out the full story on this scandal in Saturday's Daily Nation online (01/10/05). It is under the headline; "Tycoon collapses and dies in hotel room".
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