Did you know that Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko rarely holds cabinet meetings and when he does, they are informal?
Shortly after resigning, former Education CEC Janet Ouko has badly exposed Sonko.
“In that one year and two months, I have not attended more than four cabinet meetings. He can dare me. He can produce the minutes of those meetings,” Ouko said.
Sonko does not also seek professional advice. He has a particular dislike for educated people.
You have no room to say anything. According to Ouko, he is some sort of monster.
She recalled him often dismissing everyone, “I’m the governor. What can you tell me with your degrees? Go contest for governor. Put up posters. Then you will form your own government.”
County executives have no freedom to spend money allocated to their dockets by the assembly, yet that is their mandate. Sonko must approve use of funds.
“The most irritating part is everyone is a suspect. Everybody is a thief. There is only one person who is not a thief and that is himself,” Ouko said.
The city boss never tables any evidence of the many allegations he throws around.
While attending functions around the city, he is always seen surrounded by well-built youths.
Ouko said some of those youths are bloggers he uses to taint reputations on social media.
The former Education CEC said she and her colleagues were subjected to background checks on integrity before they took office but that is of little interest to Sonko.
Everyone is scared of him at City Hall, she said. “He will call you to tell you, I will fire you. I will get you jailed. Tomorrow detectives are coming for you. Do you sit there and wait for a mere mortal to bring your life down?” she asked.
Ouko said Sonko praised her as his best executive yet when she decided to leave, he followed her with a non-existent scandal at the Education docket.
She said she would take the bull by its horns. “I want to face the governor and tell him. This has to come to an end. You have broken the lives of so many people,” Ouko told him.
She said she was speaking on behalf of many people whose lives have been blighted by Sonko but they remain silent.