Sonko says his daily regime and operations have not been replaced despite the Nairobi metropolitan’s duty for the county’s 4 key purposes.
He continues and launches projects despite the county’s abandonment of key purposes.
A call came at 9:45 a.m. to postpone our assembly with Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, who was scheduled for 10 a.m. last Friday.
We are told to hurry to Mbagathi Hospital instead of the governor’s personal workplace in Upper Hill, where the interview will take place.
The paper changed. He heads to Mbagathi Hospital at 11 a.m. to open an outpatient care center.
Health is one of the key purposes Sonko signed in state space in the presence of President Uhuru Kenyatta in February.
The others are planning, transportation, public works and auxiliaries such as garbage collection. The 4 purposes are the backbone of any county government, especially the city county.
The purposes were assumed through the Nairobi Metropolitan Services, an entity created through the president and domiciled in his office.
When we arrived in Mbagathi, a team of county officials led by CEC fitness Hitan Majevdia and the hospital control board is in a position to get the county chief.
The hangers arrived with an organization of young people who were already singing songs praising the governor as the women dance in a circle, obviously dazzling over the regulation of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Moments later, Sonko arrives in style – five black posh cars, one of them a Lexus; the other a Mercedes Benz mounted with a siren in front.
Fifteen tall men, some with pistols sticking out of their T-shirts, jump out of cars and surround the guy who wears the guy of the moment.
It is taken and taken to the newly renovated outpatient care center. Visit the installation before cutting the tape to sign the official installation release.
In his speech, Sonko ordered Majevdia to facilitate the delivery of the remaining 6 million shillings to the facility’s contractor.
“They gave us about 1.2 billion shillings (from the Treasury). I know we’re going to pay a salary, and we’re still got some cash left. As governor, I order you to pay this contractor in two days,” he ordered.
When he left, the other young men convinced him to talk to them and, of course, to give them a polycopy. He does it and gets out of the hospital.
We’re told to wait for them to call us to find out where the governor will be for the interview. And then we wait.
A few minutes after 1 p.m., we received a call asking us to meet at Argwings Kodhek Road in Hurlingham, where the governor’s new staff is located.
They take us to the Greenpath residence, but we’re allowed in because the governor has arrived. We waited two hours here.
We are told to leave and plan the assembly because we don’t know where the governor is.
Around 4:30 p.m., a call arrives telling us to do everything we can to succeed at Garden Estate Elementary School in Roysambu, where the governor inspects the projects.
Moments later, we are told to go to Roysambu ward administrator’s office. We google maps to locate the place.
When you arrive, you can see that the position is complete.
The governor’s high-end cars are parked in front of the rs provide 24-hour security.
They take us to a waiting room where we stayed about 10 minutes before being taken for the interview.
Inside the room, a modest table without carpets and with two tables and 4 chairs, we placed the governor with Roysambu MCA Peter Warutere.
The county leader is busy with his phone when we get there. Another phone’s on the table.
Two minutes after the interview begins, one of the phones rings. But it doesn’t respond, it doesn’t disturb the maintenance. During the 56 minutes we spent with Sonko, his phone rings 15 times. He doesn’t even answer once.
Sonko tells us that his regime and operations have not been replaced even though the NMS takes over the key purposes of the county.
“I remain the governor of Nairobi. All those purposes that are transferred remain my responsibility. That’s why they saw me start projects in Mbagathi and now I’m here,” he says.
Sonko has been described through many as a testaferro, a ceremonial and impotent governor after signing the four purposes in the national government.
The 4 purposes it transferred constitute up to 20 billion shillings of the county’s annual budget of 35 billion shillings.
The main members appointed through Sonko – executives and general administrators – were left “unemployed” along with senior county officials, adding administrators, being assumed through the NMS, headed by army officer Mohamed Badi.
The governor maintains that he continues to perform his official duties, in addition to chairing the CCA committee meetings, obtaining reports from county officials, launching projects, and reviewing those he initiated.
“I continue my paintings as governor. Sub-county management is under NMS, but I’m here in Roysambu, in this with the MCA area, examining the projects. I’ll keep doing this, no one’s going to prevent me from doing it, ” he said.
However, it does not reveal how you summon your closet and how cabinet policies are implemented, i.e. those relating to transferred functions.
According to its managers, the governor has 3 offices, in Mua Hills (his ancestral home in Machakos County), Upper Hill and the new on Argwings Kodhek Road.
He prefers to hold meetings at Upper HillArray, however, the recent raid through EACC detectives who investigated how he acquired the property, along with Badi’s takeover of the former mayor’s apartment in Lavington, led him to move some of his operations to the new one: at Greenpath Residence. .
“He holds closet meetings at least once a month. But he held meetings with county officials. You are informed every morning. If you have express problems, call the officials involved and meet,” said non-public assistant Ben Mulwa.
The governor also began distributing relief pieces to those most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I’m doing what they’re doing (NMS). In fact, top projects like the reconstruction of Kenyatta Avenue, I started it. We plead and award the tender,” he says.
According to an executive who did not need to be appointed and whose role was transferred to the NMS, his cadtres have been reduced, sometimes meeting with the governor, especially when launching or examining projects.
“I pass to but there’s not much. NMS only calls when it is blocked. But for the pin, we meet often. Some of our rs are with the NMS and tell us and we pass the same thing to the pin,” the CCA said.
When we conclude the interview around 5:30 p.m., we’re not the last people Sonko knows that day.
When we leave the interrogation room, we see five other people sitting on the visitor bank in front of the room where the governor is located.
Outside, the governor’s cars are waiting, all facing the door where their supporters are grinding, hoping to receive donations.
– mwaniki fm
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