Spin-Doctors Playing Tricks with Raila’s Mindboggling Expenditure

So instead of taking the answers to the questioner, Raila has decided to table his defence with the media.

It’s a good thing knowing that the media is one powerful monster which can build or destroy at will. It’s a well thought of idea to try to influence the Fourth Estate instead of taking on a weak parliamentarian, a first-timer, a fluent-swahili-wannabe Joshua Kutuny. It’s a wonderful choice especially when the local media-mostly known for ‘opening their mouths’ wide to take all of politician’s talk plus their ‘mucous’ without daring ask why they are being fed with such rejects as mucous. Of course it’s not mucous literally but all the crap oozing from the mouths of politicians and their spin-doctors, so please don’t kick me there, thanks.

The belated defence Raila’s team is trying to wage after failing to give a satisfactory answer in parliament only serves to show how desperate the Prime Minster is in trying to wipe the ‘rotten’ egg in his face in the wake of furious reaction from the Kenyan people.

The figure (sh602, 000 a night) consumed by the PM plus another sh387, 000 a night for each of the delegates in his entourage, not only captures our leader’s heart-scalding extravagance but also their don’t care attitude when it comes to using tax payer’s money.

Many have argued that the PM deserved a King’s treatment wherever he goes, sleeps or eats. It’s understandable but what if that King comes from a kingdom where its begging bowl is always sticking out of their hands, is it fair to overspend to satisfy one’s stature? Logic would definitely say no but carefree would certainly say yes. What’s funnier is when such is spent when you’re trying to cut a loan/donation deal with those you’re splashing what you’ve on.

The desperate efforts are similar to those of a thief who when caught stealing, rolls his head down, raise his hands and claim that he had just stolen kidogo (small amount), and  that he should be pardoned because the owner lied on the amount he had taken. When they say Raila used sh137, 000 a night, and his delegation each consumed sh21, 500 per night, they further smear the PM’s face with more rotten egg instead of cleaning it. First, why didn’t the PM deny Kutuny’s figures when the Mp revealed the expenses? You know silence is often understood as agreeing with what’s being said...And it would a serious mistake to say he didn’t know of the correct amounts because the questioner put forward the question last week, guaranteeing the PM and his people adequate time to do correct calculations and ascertain the figures and even correspond with the owners of the hotels.

The PM wouldn’t have gone to defend himself in the august house without having done or helped to collate a good response.

The damage is already done. Our PM is kingly extravagant.