‘The Love of grass’. The Only thing Sonko and Kidero have in common

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It wasn’t just Evans Kidero who loved grass. The fetish for planting grass seems to be contagious for anyone who enters City Hall as Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko seems to be deeply invested in the beautification of the city despite the county having much bigger problems.

 

 

Governor Sonko has today revealed that he has been using his own money to fund the Nairobi City beautification project which includes, planting of flowers and grass along major roads and pavements in the city.

Appearing before the Senate County Public Investment Committee on Monday, Sonko said that ahead of the Blue Economy Conference held in Nairobi last week, he spent Ksh. 100,000 from his personal account on the posters of cabinet secretaries and governors erected along Mombasa Road.

 

 

The Nairobi Governor said that he opted to use his own money instead of the county’s because the facelift programme was not in the county budget. He further defended his decision saying, “Nairobi is in my heart, Nairobi is in my blood, this is a pilot project. We want to transform Nairobi.”

“We benchmarked in Kigali and Dubai, who spend on beautification. I was trying to implement to see if it works. We want to add it to the next budget, but for now it is my own money,” he said.

 

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The committee however questioned the Governor’s generosity but he dared them to invite the Auditor General to look into the county expenditure swearing that he had never spent a coin from the county budget for the beautification project.

“I am a philanthropist and my work is known,” Sonko added.

 

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When asked how much the beautification project had cost him, Sonko said that he would have to check on his bank statements reiterating the fact that he used personal resources for the project.

The governor also mentioned that in two months time he will nominate a candidate to take up the position of deputy governor as well as unveil a new cabinet.

 

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Do you think the county government should add the beautification programme to its budget or is it a waste of resources.

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