In a long Facebook post, controversial Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB)chairman Ezekiel Mutua writes about the lowest moment in his career as a public servant.
It happened in August 2011, where he was hounded out of office as the secretary of information in the ministry of ICT on trumped up charges, as he claims.
The KFCB chairman talks about how he was served with a dismissal letter, his GK vehicle and driver recalled and his office locked. At the time he was a student at the Kenya school of government and a Ph.D. student at Moi University.
“The locks to my then Jogoo House office were changed at noon in the full glare of the staff, secretaries transferred to the headquarter and the place sealed like a crime scene,” writes Mutua.
He never got his personal stuff from the office, since his then friend and former deputy turned against him.
He had asked him to pack the stuff and send them to his home.
The dreams of Mutua, who was then in his forties were further worsened when a close friend of his published a damning story about his fall from grace.
Mutua says that he pleaded with him not to publish it because it would affect his son who was a KCPE candidate.
After six months, Mutua was reinstated back to his former position, and his salary backdated. He points out his lessons from the experience.
“If it were not for God's grace, the support from my dear wife, the church and a few friends who stood by me, I would have lost my mind. That's why I no longer care about people's opinions. I no longer live to please people. I have no godfather, but God the Father," Mutua said.
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