A Nairobi resident wants the city government suspended.
The chairman of Muthurwa Residents Association Welfare, Patrick Kamotho Githinji, wants Governor Mike Sonko’s administration dissolved on grounds that it has failed to deliver services which he blames on internal conflicts that have slowed down the city’s development.
The petition is addressed to President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Clerk of the Senate and dated September 10, 2018. Kamotho argues suspension of the City Government will ensure that Nairobians do not lose millions of monies thorough double funding and ghost projects.
-Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko is operating from Machakos
-The County has no Deputy Governor
-Speaker Beatrice Elachi is being hounded out of office by MCAs for very flimsy reasons e.g being denied unnecessary tripsNairobi County Assembly should be dissolved. Pure garbage!
— Wambui (@Waambui) September 10, 2018
The Nairobi county government has done little to salvage its tattered image.
On Monday, City Hall was a chaotic scene after angry MCAS stormed Speaker Beatrice Elachi’s office to evict her. The assembly had impeached her last week on grounds of violation of the Constitution and failing to meet the Leadership and Integrity Act 2012.
Elachi, however, got a temporary reprieve after court reinstated her. The case is currently in court.
VIDEO: Nairobi MCAs storm county speaker Beatrice Elachi’s office demanding she leave office following a vote to impeach her. #NTVToday pic.twitter.com/VCnnLhy25M
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) September 10, 2018
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has in the past few months been running the county’s affairs from his Mua Hills home, Machakos attracting criticism Sonko moved to Machakos County in May for ‘fear of his life’ after State reduced his bodyguards from 15 to four.
The county has also been without a deputy governor after Polycarp Igathe resigned in January this year barely six months after assuming office.