Mike Sonko: Subdued at hour of reckoning
Friday December 18 2020
By SAM KIPLAGAT
Summary
Mr Sonko is also battling with EACC over the acquisition of a property in Upper Hill, which initially belonged to the Trustees of Kenya Railways Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme.
A company associated with him said he acquired the property, measuring 0.2025 hectares, in 2019 for Sh200 million.
When 45-year-old Mike Mbuvi Sonko sat in the Senate for two days facing his accusers from the Nairobi County Assembly, he was in a familiar territory.
Familiar because he spent five years with some of the senators who were closely following as MCAs tabled accusations against him.
Saumu accompanied Sonko’s wife, county First Lady Primrose Mbuvi, to the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women held in New York from March 12 to 23, 2018.
County assembly Minority Leader Michael Ogada says Sonko flew his daughter in a first-class flight to the US a move that contravenes company policy.
Ogada told the Senate the governor’s daughter spent Sh220,000 on a chopper flying around New York City, and another Sh260,000 in what he described as an ‘offside party’ from the first lady’s conference in Philadelphia. An additional Sh120,000 was given to journalists while Sh300,000 was factored in as transport costs.