{"id":3489,"date":"2020-03-01T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:31:24","slug":"mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sonko sunk himself into a hole, and kept digging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko\u2019s advisors contributed to the dilemma his government is facing, africa-press<em>\u00a0has learnt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Driving in flashy cars and holding meetings in and outside City Hall, the advisors who included his friends are said to have been behind the suspension and sacking of county staff perceived to be a stumbling block to their deals.\u201cSonko\u00a0is good as a person. It is because of his advisors that he has found\u00a0himself\u00a0in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Why would you remove hard working people from their positions because of gossip created by people who claim to be friends? I hope he has now learnt and will keep off such people if he wants to continue with his career,\u201d said Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Beatrice Elachi.The governor suspended Planning Chief Officer Justus Kathenge in August last year over claims of violating the Physical Planning Act and zoning regulations, a decision that saw the department paralysed for more than five months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosing of the Planning Department was a big mistake because it is one of the areas where the county collects revenue and even helps in the organisation of the city,\u201d Ms Elachi said.He sacked Lands and Finance CEC Pauline Kahiga over what he termed sabotage after she refused to pay some suppliers whose details were not captured in the pending bills after the National Treasury released Sh1.4 billion to the county. Nairobi is among the counties that have not paid pending bills amounting to billions of shillings.Elachi told\u00a0<em>Sunday Standard\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0Sonko\u00a0should also have been wary of friends and people who deposit huge sums of money in his bank account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Numerous complaints<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSonko\u00a0worked well during his first year in office, but things started changing when those people started surrounding him. He should have asked\u00a0himself\u00a0if those doing so were friends or people out to fix him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said\u00a0Sonko\u00a0saw the direction service delivery was taking and made a noble decision to invite the National Government in 2018 under the Nairobi Regeneration Committee.In the deal, officials leading particular service delivery programmes agreed to resign if targets were not met.\u00a0They were to clean up the city and Nairobi River within 30 days, reduce traffic jams within a month and equip medical facilities within three months.But the quality of service delivery in the city continued declining and Elachi\u2019s office received numerous complaints.\u201cWe met CSs Najib Balala and Fred Matiang\u2019i and we all agreed there was need to save the city,\u201d Elachi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko\u2019s advisors contributed to the dilemma his government is facing, africa-press\u00a0has learnt. Driving in flashy cars and holding meetings in and outside City Hall, the advisors who included his friends are said to have been behind the suspension and sacking of county staff perceived to be a stumbling block to their deals.\u201cSonko\u00a0is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[399,394,382],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-city-hall","tag-mike-sonko","tag-nairobi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mike Sonko sunk himself into a hole, and kept digging - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko\u2019s advisors contributed to the dilemma his government is facing, africa-press\u00a0has learnt.Driving in flashy cars\" \/>\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\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike Sonko sunk himself into a hole, and kept digging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko\u2019s advisors contributed to the dilemma his government is facing, africa-press\u00a0has learnt.Driving in flashy cars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging\" \/>\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=\"2020-03-01T15:31:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/najmvg81rcrg5e5aba026db7f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"609\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mike Sonko sunk himself into a hole, and kept digging\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-01T15:31:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging\"},\"wordCount\":431,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/najmvg81rcrg5e5aba026db7f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"City Hall\",\"Mike Sonko\",\"Nairobi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mike-sonko-sunk-himself-into-a-hole-and-kept-digging\",\"name\":\"Mike Sonko sunk himself into a hole, and kept digging - 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