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Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko yesterday suffered a blow after a court declined to release his travel documents.<\/p>\n

Anti-corruption court Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti, while delivering the ruling, said that he could not review his own orders.\u201cThe release of the passport at this stage may lead to an abuse of office and the court is not ready to do that,\u201d ruled Ogoti.<\/p>\n

He added that the court does not know how the applicants received their evidence as they did not attach any clearance from relevant Government officials.Sonko was seeking the release of his passports to enable him travel to the United Arab Emirates on official duty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe applicant has been invited in his capacity as the Governor of the Nairobi City County,\u201d read court papers.However, the prosecution objected, saying that Sonko has paid for the trip using his cards, adding saying that is proof that he was travelling for personal luxury as opposed to official duty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court had barred the accused from his office. He, therefore, cannot purport to be performing his official duties by attending the meeting,\u201d the prosecution said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko yesterday suffered a blow after a court declined to release his travel documents. Anti-corruption court Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti, while delivering the ruling, said that he could not review his own orders.\u201cThe release of the passport at this stage may lead to an abuse of office and the court is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[1212,1213],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-nairobi-county-governor-mike-sonko","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"yoast_head":"\nSonko suffers blow after court declines to grant him travel documents - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko yesterday suffered a blow after a court declined to release his travel documents.Anti-corruption court Chief Magistrate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sonko suffers blow after court declines to grant him travel documents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko yesterday suffered a blow after a court declined to release his travel documents.Anti-corruption court Chief Magistrate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-07T14:40:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/vonaabkbmzc6m0mzk5e3c6aadf264f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"542\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sonko suffers blow after court declines to grant him travel documents\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-07T14:40:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/vonaabkbmzc6m0mzk5e3c6aadf264f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko\",\"United Arab Emirates\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/sonko-suffers-blow-after-court-declines-to-grant-him-travel-documents\",\"name\":\"Sonko suffers blow after court declines to grant him travel documents - 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