A section of Mombasa county employees are living in fear and anxiety after a woman they claim to be deputy governor’s wife turned the county offices into her personal office while demanding to be recognised as the county’s first lady.
The slim but ruthless woman known my many staff as “First Lady Kache,” is said to be taking advantage of a deputy governor’s wife and the fact that Mombasa governor Hassan Joho’s wife rarely appears in public to harass county employees and demand recognitions for the county’s lucrative tenders and services.
According to sources, the said DG’s wife has gone to an extent of registering a cleaning and garbage collection company which she adamantly and forcefully uses to fleece the county of public money.
In what is seen as conflict of interest and corruption particularly in the deputy governor’s office, the woman allegedly won a county tender for cleaning services in DG’s offices which comprise the county education department.
Deputy governor Kingii also serves as the county executive committee member for education. However, how his wife won the tender remains a story for another day.
Kache is said to be arrogant and ready for a fight with any county staff in case of delay in payments for her company services.
One employee who could not want to be named said the woman caused a stir when she stormed the county finance offices demanding to be paid money for the cleaning services provided by her company. She bragged that her husband is the law and nothing can stop her from getting whatever she wants at the county.
The county employees surprised by the fact that Mombasa governor has been informed of the woman’s dirty and fraudulent deals said to be costing the county its reputation and lose of public money in millions of shillings and nothing has been done.
They seem worried as to how things will be in case the deputy governor, known to be aspiring to succeed Governor Joho in 2022 will succeed in his dream of being the head of the county with such a nuisance in his path.
Meanwhile, a member of a Mombasa youth senate, an online network for the county youths supporting Mombasa senator confirmed in the Facebook that Kache is a public nuisance and a threat even to unemployed youths.
He claims in one of his Facebook posts that the woman would bully anyone she suspects especially female youth seen to be more enticing to the deputy governor.
A number of them now want Governor Joho to intervene by taming the DG and “wife” whom they claim to have grown hornes and a real threat to service delivery at the county and the office of deputy governor in particular.