Details have emerged on how the Kericho Senator Aaron Cheuiyot was bribed Sh20m by businesswoman Agnes Kagure to push Governor Mike Sonko to name Kagure as his deputy.
Kagure who wants to be named Sonko’s deputy by hook or crook reportedly met with Senator Cheruiyot at Intercontinental Hotel where the Senator was bribed with Sh20m in foreign currency.
According to sources at Intercontinental Hotel, Senator Cheruiyot met with Kagure on Monday night at the Five Star Hotel in a private room, where they spent almost 2 hours in a closed door meeting.
In a CCTV footage seen, the Senator is seen driving in at the Hotel in a white Toyota V8 moments after 10:00pm, then he’s followed a few minutes after by the heavily guarded Kagure who was being drive in a black Mercedes Benz.
It’s during the meeting that waiters at the Hotel revealed how Cheruiyot collected a bundle of US dollars amounting to Sh20m to accomplish is mission of pushing Sonko to the wall until he names Kagure as the Nairobi deputy Governor.
@Aaroncheruiyot u must focus on other business but not to relay our city down, keep this on mind we support county goverment and leadership of governor @MikeSonko be aware of that we are defending what’s right for us #NairobiCityCountyToStay pic.twitter.com/CC3PRSd80o
— mc donard (@MacdonardW) October 18, 2018
Cheruiyot has already embarked on his mission by sponsoring a Bill to dissolve Nairobi County and put it’s leadership under a national government appointee, on grounds that Sonko has failed Nairobians.
The Bill has to approved by three third majority of the 47 elected Senators before it’s forwarded to the AG for a referendum.
If Nairobi County is dissolved, all the Billions allocated for the county will now be allocated to the rest of the 46 counties since Nairobi will be governed by a Cabinet Secretary like a government Ministry.
HIGHLIGHTS: Why Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot wants Nairobi County dissolved #JKLive pic.twitter.com/EzHTuWnpxn
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) October 17, 2018
Cheruiyot was a radical University student at Moi Campus Eldoret, but in 2009, he was suspended for one year for his unruly behaviour.
In 2016 Cheruiyot was narrowly elected as Kericho Senator in a by election under the Jubilee Alliance Party. The Senator who was then a broke man received millions of shillings from President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto and Governor Sonko who was then Nairobi Senator in a fundraiser at Weston Hotel.
During the by election harambee, Uhuru donated Sh30m, Ruto Sh20m, while Sonko contributed Sh15m towards the Cheruiyot’s by election campaign.