Supremacy is an addictive spirit in both politics and business to stay at the top and run things but money as they say is the source of all evil.
Clouds continue to gather over the Kenya Pipeline Corporation, with bitter intra-board battles, reportedly fanned by conflicting loyalties to powerful forces, compounding its fiscal woes.
KPC managing director Joe Sang and Board chairman John Ngumi appear to be on different orbits and appear to have nothing but disdain for each other. They have been trying to sway the board to their side and using every opportunity to tar each other.
Fiscal impropriety of huge proportions are, meanwhile crippling KPC with massive financial losses and debts linked to tendering, oil spillage and opaque dealings, among other vices. Ngumi has been categorical that the agency under Sang has underperformed, hence the losses and debts.
Interestingly, despite the fact that the Director of Criminal Investigations has completed investigations on corruption related matters at the State agency and forwarded them to the Director of Public Prosecutions, the files have taken months to be acted upon without explanation being offered.
A board meeting called by Ngumi last week to discuss Sang aborted after it failed to raise quorum. Only Petroleum Principal Secretary Andrew Kamau, Winnie Mukami and Rita Okuthe who are reportedly on the side of the chairman showed up.
Those identifying with the MD namely Hudson Andambi, Maj (Rtd) Iltasayon Neepe, Erick Korir, Jinaro Kibet, Wahome Gitonga and Felicity Biriri did not turn up, prompting the chairman to call off the meeting. Six directors make the quorum.
It is understood that Deputy President William Ruto had, a day before the scheduled board meeting, invited the two for a meeting to iron out their differences and asked the board to allow Sang to complete his term which ends in March.
But in an apparent defiance of the DPs truce call, Ngumi has convened yet another meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) with the sole agenda to discuss the MD, raising questions as its value and if it will stoke more heat or finally throw some light into the Pipeline saga.
Do you think the meeting will push through or it will be postponed again?