{"id":13977,"date":"2020-09-06T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2020-09-06T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:01:22","slug":"bunge-chronicles-kagwe-turns-probe-session-into-his-own-praise-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/bunge-chronicles-kagwe-turns-probe-session-into-his-own-praise-chorus","title":{"rendered":"Bunge Chronicles: Kagwe turns probe session into his own praise chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Brian Otieno\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> as soon as he was allowed to speak, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe <strong>(pictured)<\/strong>\u00a0brandished a document he swore contained evidence that his\u00a0ministry was clean.\u00a0He waved it, gleaming with relief, as though he had evaded a calamity.<\/p>\n<p>For someone whose lectures are as endless as the country\u2019s ruling elite appetite for public funds, his display of humility seemed off.<\/p>\n<p>But Kagwe, more famous as\u00a0Mtu wa Corona, was saving himself an embarrassing fate that had\u00a0earlier visited an official from the Transport ministry for showing up before the National Assembly\u2019s Health Committee unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>Kagwe was in Parliament on Wednesday to expound on claims that gifts from the Orient found their way to some people\u2019s doorsteps.\u00a0He had watched as Transport Chief Administrative Secretary Chris Obure was chased out of Bunge for his underwhelming explanations on the whereabouts of some Covid-19 donations and he didn\u2019t fancy walking that route.<\/p>\n<p>He had also seen how apprehensive the\u00a0waheshimiwas\u00a0got when they learnt of James Macharia\u2019s (Transport CS) absence from the same sitting.\u00a0To avoid any trouble,\u00a0Bwana Waziri\u00a0had to play the part and convince the committee members that he took his work seriously and, more importantly, that he didn\u2019t look down on their role of grilling the big bosses.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Question time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tell us about yourself\u2019 must have been the first question, going by the amount of time the former Nyeri senator spent enumerating his credentials and his role as a CS and repeating them like some chorus.\u00a0\u201cI am just a CS,\u201d he almost implored when introducing himself,<\/p>\n<p>in what sounded like a call for mercy to MPs. He made his opening remarks long and kept talking in circles. It was as though he was trying to put off the agony of facing the MPs and their nosy questions.<\/p>\n<p>All the while, he insisted that he didn\u2019t mind answering any queries they might have.\u00a0Kagwe spoke and spoke some more, mostly preaching his \u2018Covid is real\u2019 gospel to the doubting Thomases who still thought that the pandemic was as much a hoax as a politician\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n<p>For a person who has spoken on the same subject for six months now, he didn\u2019t sound in the least bit jaded.\u00a0And had no one interrupted him mid-sentence, he would have probably uttered the words that made him a celebrity: \u201cFellow Kenyans, in the last 24 hours\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Koros (Sigowet\/Soin MP) was the first one to cut off the Health CS as he spoke.\u00a0The first time Koros interjected,\u00a0Mtu wa Corona\u2019s\u00a0eyes rolled as his head nodded in annoyance, having been stopped from defending himself against claims of interference with the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency.\u00a0At that moment, he must have longed for the comforts of \u2018Mafia House\u2019 where no journalist dared to interrupt him.<\/p>\n<p>But this was\u00a0Bunge, and he didn\u2019t make the rules. He knew that already. He had no say in deciding when the sitting would end.\u00a0Furthermore, he wasn\u2019t allowed to remove his mask. Not even when he made a facial expression he felt the\u00a0waheshimiwas\u00a0needed to see.\u00a0And in case you were wondering, no one knows of the contents of the documented evidence he had earlier wafted in the air, certainly not from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Brian Otieno\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: as soon as he was allowed to speak, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe (pictured)\u00a0brandished a document he swore contained evidence that his\u00a0ministry was clean.\u00a0He waved it, gleaming with relief, as though he had evaded a calamity. 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