Besieged Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu is reported to have crafted a good rapport with fellow inmates and prison warders at the Industrial Area remand prison.
According to our inside source, Waititu who was taken to block E few meters away from the facility’s canteen has been enjoying services of his fellow inmates who have offered to spread his bed, collect his food from the canteen and other general duties.
Ordinarily no foodstuff is allowed from outside to the prisoners, meaning that the Governor just like any other inmate is forced to eat food served at the facility or buy quick bites from the popular canteen with limited opening hours.
Foodstuff served from the canteen ranges from bread, milk, avocado, biscuits, bananas and mineral water.
Apart from enjoying good diet popularly known among the inmates as ‘’mawetete’’ those aiding Waititu inside the prison are also hopeful that the politician would consider settling their cash bails when he walks free.
But at night the governor rarely catches any sleep and according to our source, he has been cursing his links with some of the tangatanga politicians and the chairman of Council of Governors Wycliffe Oparanya who has failed to mobilize other governors to troop to the prison in his solidarity.
Waititu who was immediately named the governor of his ward in E block was instantly accorded high-profile treatment which to the prison level comes with double mattresses.
He sleeps at a designated area nicknamed statehouse as opposed to newcomers at the facility who are forced to spend their nights in a filthy corridor dubbed Mathare.
Though he has to wake up at 5 am in preparation for the mandatory headcounts that start at 6 am, the governor is exempted from the normal squatting but at a fee to the greedy prison warders.
