Former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Peter Mangiti is now a lamenting man, a few years after he was implicated in the first National Youth Service (NYS) saga.
Unlike then, when his phone was always busy and friends always milling around him, the former powerful man now says that no one is interested in him anymore.
In an interview, he told the Saturday Nation that so isolated is he that he has managed to do more than he has done in his entire life in the four years he has been out of office.
“I am alone, my phone never rings anymore. I have all the time in the world to do things I was never able to do when I was in office," he is said.
He said that he feels betrayed by his former friends who repeatedly checked on him, now that his income has also reduced to about Sh60,000 from the initial Sh1 million.
The former top state official has now been reduced to a mere counsellor to a fellow former PS who is also grappling with shame and humiliation after being kicked out as well.
“You can imagine coming from earning Sh1 million a month to just Sh68,000. How do you survive? But I have learnt not to be bitter. If you are going through such challenges and you add bitterness, you could easily die,” he said.
He says that not all friends have left, and he has remained with a few, as he attempts to clear his name in court.