Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko has come under siege in the recent past after the EACC claimed to have discovered the way he had been siphoning funds from the county government.
His woes deepened on Monday, November 25 after the speaker of the senate, Ken Lusaka asked a house committee to investigate the squabbles at City Hall.
Among the issues that the speaker wants to be investigated were allegations of financial embezzlement, leadership wrangles and claims of a dysfunctional executive due to the frequent suspension and firing of County Executive Committee members.
The probe was launched after Nairobi Senator Johnstone Sakaja petitioned the Senate to inquire what he termed as a ‘triple calamity’ holding back progress in the city.
in the petition to the senate dubbed ‘State of Nairobi City County,” Sakaja claimed that the county was suffering a triple calamity of a governor with no substantive deputy, a non-functional executive and an Assembly that is in shambles.
“Nairobi City County continues to sink further into an abyss of mismanagement and impunity. As anarchy and disorder reign supreme at the City Hall. Services to Nairobi City County citizens have practically been grounded,” Sakaja alleged in the petition.
He further stated that members of the committee should then come back and advise this House on the way forward because the issues that have been raised could still be happening.
The senate further warned the committee to be keen on the dirty tricks that were being used to run events at the city-county head offices.
“Senators, we must be careful about how we approach some of the issues. Let us not come up with solutions that are not practical. You should remember that al Committees sit on behalf of the Senate,” Lusaka advised.
This comes barely two days after a report by Daily Nation on Sunday, November 24, where Shimo la Tewa prison submitted that the governor should complete his remaining sentence in the correctional facility.
The publication disclosed that in response to the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC). Shimo la Tewa prison claimed that Sonko alias Mbuvi Gideon Kioko should serve the pending sentence as well as be charged for the offence of escaping from prison.
