The alleged main NASA financier Jimmy Wanjigi is ruffling feathers among members of the civil society within the opposition coalition that seeks to send Jubilee Party home.
The Sunday Nation reports that this week, some civil society members who consult for Nasa alerted newsrooms of the projects that were in a separate manifesto and which they fear could later be scandalous if the matter is not publicised early.
This comes hot on the heels of Nation's damning revelation of how Nasa was accepting financing from 'wheel-dealer' Wanjigi and who was widely mentioned in the anti-corruption czar John Githongo’s Anglo Leasing dossier.
"That these insiders do not know how to handle the billionaire is illustrative of the influence that he has within the party. And that explains why there is studious silence on campaign financing from the erstwhile loud civil society mandarins who would have otherwise put perspective into the emerging issues," writes the Sunday Nation.
In other countries, it is the civil society that normally stays at the forefront urging political parties to run clean campaigns and exposing the causal connection between secret funding and corruption as well as the weakening of democratic practice.
Nasa has, however, strongly defended Wanjigi both in political rallies and in written formal statements.
“There is no prohibition against political leaders meeting Kenyans and receiving assistance from them if they have no charges against them. And while we appreciate the support we receive from many people, Nasa is not receiving large amounts of money from any one person,” Salim Lone, adviser of Raila Odinga, said in a statement recently.