State House Director of Digital Innovation and Diaspora Communications Dennis Itumbi has opened up on how he was once offered a lucrative government job only to later learn that it was fake.
Speaking during an interview on Chipukeezy Show on Wednesday night, the State House operative said he was offered the job together with former KTN investigative journalist Dennis Onsarigo.
Itumbi said Onsarigo and him had just successfully campaigned for retired President Mwai Kibaki during the 2002 elections when Kibaki’s nephew gave them appointment letters to work for the President at State House.
The letters indicated they were to work at Presidential Press Service (PPS) after Kibaki was declared the winner of 2002 elections. He admitted to being naive at the time since they were first year students in college without any qualifications.
“What most people don’t know is that I actually worked in the Kibaki campaign of 2002. There was a Vijana na Kibaki team but I was in the main Secretariat.”
“Sasa kuna jamaa anaitwa Alex Mureithi, he’s late now, and he was a nephew to President. Huyo jamaa ile siku Kibaki alishinda election alituletea barua appointing us to the then PPS with a salary of Sh70,000,” Itumbi recounted.
To their shock, they were turned away at State House gate by guards after being told that the appointment letters which bore NARC letterhead and logo were fake.
“Ule GSU aliangalia hiyo barua akatingisha kichwa akasema ‘tokeni hapa this does not belong here’. Alex saa hiyo ashachange number, tulikuwa tunamuona tu kwa TV for a whole year. I was with Dennis Onsarigo,” he narrated.
