Minister and Assistant Publicly Clash
June 23, 2007: Tourism and Wildlife Minister Morris Dzoro and his assistant, Kalembe Ndile, publicly clashed over a few issues. Ndile asked for more duties and for vehicles to complete these duties in; Dzoro said that he has already given him vehicles, which he has crashed, and that Ndile is not in the office enough to be given more duties. Ndile also asked that answers to parliamentary questions be translated into Kiswahili, one of the most widely spoken languages in Kenya. English is the official language of Kenya; Kiswahili is the national language. This means that education and government use English. Dzoro said that he had already asked for a translator. Ndile subsequently said that he has raised these issues privately with Dzoro and with Kenya’s President Kibaki, but it was Dzoro that brought them up publicly. The clash ended with Ndile “leaving in a huff” (source 1) and not attending a dignitary luncheon.
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