State honcho runs away to avoid meeting ally-turned-foe

A STATE FUNCTIONARY holding a powerful docket reportedly altered his entrance route during a recent high-profile function to avoid bumping into a former ally turned critic.

Those watching from the inside say the two haven’t spoken in months after a messy falling out, allegedly over appointments. The power man insisted he was running late, but his body language told a different story. It reportedly revealed the deliberate evasion, underscoring the deep personal and political rift between the two.

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A PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN with powerful connections reportedly faces a massive statutory claim. Authorities have reportedly frozen his five bank accounts,allegedly leaving him financially crippled and reliant on his wife and friends. Corridors of Power is apprised that the man insists he is supposedly being unjustly targeted and vows to fight back. The claim, amounting to billions of shillings for supplied goods and services, has seemingly led advisers to urge him to negotiate a settlement with the authorities. A little bird whispers that the fellow is now allegedly left operating like a rat, depending on his friends and wife.

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A FIRST-TERM LAWMAKER’S hopes were recently dashed at an important event. Allegedly expecting a private audience with a top official, he received only a handshake and a photo. It apparently played out that the promised meeting had been exaggerated by the big man’s aide. The encounter left him embarrassed, his anticipated discussion unrealised. The man has reportedly been calling out the aide at every opportunity for selling false promises. This is even as some insiders laugh off the events as merely exposing the gap between expectation and reality in political access.

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A FORMER COUNTY boss has reportedly opened a new warfront with his successor for allegedly sacking his trusted informer. The ex-county chief had apparently left the officer in a prime post in the county public service. Since then, the individual has reportedly been informing the former county chief of the underhand dealings in the administration, giving him the much-needed arsenal to expose the incumbent. The latter reportedly got wind of the happenings, ordering the supposed informer's immediate sacking from his administration.