BY SHADRACK NYAKOE
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has taken the EACC head on and blamed it for turning a blind eye on his complaints about corruption at City Hall.
Sonko appeared before the commission to honor summons on his past personal life and alleged criminal activities.
He accused the agency for engaging in baseless plans to remove him from office.
The commission has accused him of having been convicted in 1997 and that he is not supposed to be in office.
The governor termed the move as malicious, noting that his public life and past mistakes are in public domain.
“They are trying to remove me from office so that they continue with their corruption. These Investigators investigating this case should be taken for a refresher course. This war is personal and its targeting me, “he said.
“The issue here is to remove me from office because of my position to fight corruption and cartels in Nairobi,”he said.
He also wondered why he was being questioned over shs 20 million paid to him in 2016 over a piece of land in Kwale.
The Nairobi Governor said the Constitution spells out how a Governor can be removed from office.
Sonko said one Mwaniki who is an operations Director with the Police has been colluding with one Company dubbed Proland which has received several payments at City Hall without supplying anything.
“There is a difference between conviction and sentencing. I have never been convicted and undergone any trial. My only offense was failing to attend court. In 1997, I was sentenced to 4 months in prisons. The same sentence was pushed by Justice Oguk and I was released,” he said.
He added that the issues of his conviction were raised in 2010 when he vied as MP for Makadara Constituency.
Sonko said he was cleared in 2010, 2013 and 2017 and participated in the elections.
He said he did not mobilize any supporters to accompany him to EACC and blamed the police for teargassing passersby.
He said the Police Operations Director Mwanki was bitter because the Courts had stopped further payments to the Company.
“Justice Mativo stopped the payment of 293 million and withdrew the warrant of arrest against our officers. Mwaniki is bitter but we thank the Judiciary for stopping the payments, “he said.
Proland had obtained warrant of arrests against senior County officers for refusing to process the payments.
Sonko who raised a red flag on the fictitious Sh293 million land sale agreement between the defunct Nairobi City County and Proland insisted that top EACC officials have played a major role in siphoning of the county funds.
The County has so far paid Sh175 million to the company and it is until the governor stopped plain cloth police officers from arresting top finance officers that all this blew up.
The governor has vowed to ensure that the piece of land in question remains public land as long as he is in office.
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