CORRIDORS OF POWER

Oct 30, 2006

Although he is known for being a tough man, the Public Accounts Committee chairman Nandala Mafabi finally showed the other side of his life. <br>

Generous Mafabi
Although he is known for being a tough man, the Public Accounts Committee chairman Nandala Mafabi finally showed the other side of his life.

On Thursday he stunned everyone when he offered lunch for everyone in the committee including the CID, journalists and the officials he had just grilled.

“Let’s break off for lunch and please let’s all go to the canteen. Lunch is on me,” he announced. At the lunch, the nosy journalists asked him what the occasion was all about.

Odonga is back
After months away from the public eye, Aruu MP Odonga Otto is finally back and ready for action. “I have been away but now I am back.

You can interview me on anything, especially my silence,” he told the journalists at parliament. Instead of asking him about his silence, the scribes asked him whether his silence meant joining the NRM. “Joining NRM?

What’s wrong with you journalists! That is over my dead body,” he answered.

Careful Oduedo
Most government vehicles are well known for breaking down time and again due to poor maintenance. But the one driven by Martin Oduedo, the permanent secretary office of the Prime Minister, is not one of them.

He has driven his car so carefully that no single part has got damaged for the last three years. “My policy on government cars at my ministry is known.

Today I will be taking my car to the garage to fix a new shock absorber after three years,” he said. If all government officials handled their cars like Oduedo, taxpayers’ burden would be much lighter.

Simple Atubo
The lands minister Omara Atubo is a simple man. He doesn’t need to waste fuel driving his official car from the ministry’s offices to parliament.

He has been seen walking from parliament to his office on several occasions causing surprise among the MPs. “That is a good minister.

He knows how to save fuel unlike his counterparts in the ministry of finance who come here cruising,” one MP commented as he walked behind Atubo who was busy conversing on phone. Good show, especially these days!

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