Sonko who had leaked the video of a conversation between him and Governor Waititu reversed his orders, and later on directed Nairobi County’s Enforcement Officer, Mr Ochanda to arrest Mrs Waititu alongside contractors who were working on the renovations of a building housing Jamii Bora bank and Delta Hotel for illegal construction of the buildings in the Central Business District.
The arrest came amid the National Environment Management Authority’s efforts to reclaim riparian reserves. In December 2017, through his Facebook account, Sonko released a conversation between him and his former deputy, Polycarp Igathe – in attempts to show how close they were professionally.
But in a dramatic move, Nairobi Deputy Governor Polycarp Igathe later quit his position and attributed it to his own failure to win the trust of his boss, Governor Mike Sonko. The move finally lifted the lid on the uneasy relationship between the pair that has been running the affairs of Kenya’s capital city for the last five months.
“Dear Nairobians, it is with heavy heart that I resign my seat as the deputy governor of Nairobi City County,” he said in a letter to the media. Sonko’s love for wiretapping and taping his conversations with people run deep and is as stealth as a professional investigator.
In a different tweet, EACC says its detectives have arrested Michael Njogu Mburu for masquerading as a Kenya Power Inspector.
He demanded, the tweet says, a bribe of Sh200,000 to stop action against the complainant whom he accused of tampering with the electricity meter. He will be charged in Court on Wednesday.