{"id":8481,"date":"2020-12-17T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:24:23","slug":"my-impeachment-is-driven-by-greed-and-lust-for-corruption-money-by-mcas-sonko-tells-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=8481","title":{"rendered":"My impeachment is driven by greed and lust for corruption money by MCA&#8217;S Sonko tells the senate."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MzalendoWatch\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MzalendoWatch\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonko blames corrupt cartels among Nairobi county MCA\u2019s over his impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embattled county boss has tabled documents before the senate where he has implicated a section of Nairobi county MCA\u2019s of siphoning money from the county government\u2019s education kitty to enrich themselves. When he got wind of it and stopped the pipes, the no so honorable members hatched a plan to have him impeached which has culminated in his current predicament at the senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this new twist, Nairobians are now keen to see what the government will do with Sonko&#8217;s revelation considering that some of the MCA&#8217;S that had been named earlier on in Sonko&#8217;s dossier back his stay on top as the county boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019It is true Mr Speaker, there are cheques we refused to released because there are some MCA&#8217;s who opened a fake educational institution at River Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been happening even during the period under my predecessor. And the institution was called Kobutho. I unearthed this scandal in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a very sad story. The directors of this fake school were wives and relatives of these MCAs. And they were getting cheques from even CDF accounts of various constituencies\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county boss has singled out MCA Ogada the mover of the impeachment for engaging in what he called character assassination even when the truth was out for all to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019In Cooperative Bank we obtained 129 image cheques drawn in favour of this fake school which does not exist. Investigators are saying &#8220;we further established the suspects obtained money from county govt up to the tune of Ksh 4.5 million.\u2019&nbsp; Added Governor Sonko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Emmanuel Kenga takes the stand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbbKZMWwAAEfIV.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbbKZMWwAAEfIV.png 781w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbbKZMWwAAEfIV-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbbKZMWwAAEfIV-768x394.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Mr Emmanuel Kenga took the witness stand to testify on the authencitiy of some of the signatures used to validate Sonkos impeachement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expert revealed before the senate that some of the handwritings were done by the same person and were identical thus sanitizing Sonko\u2019s&nbsp; claims that some were forged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Ashioya: And what was your conclusion?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;Kenga: My conclusion is that serial no. 3, 4, 9, 20, 69&#8230;this writing were made with the same author.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senate is on its second day of hearing where it&nbsp; is expected to deliver a verdict whether Sonko will be impeached or saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbMSDVXUAIAh0Z.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbMSDVXUAIAh0Z.png 785w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbMSDVXUAIAh0Z-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EpbMSDVXUAIAh0Z-768x411.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Slvia Museu defending Governor Sonko before the senate.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Should the senate uphold the decision by the county assembly, Sonko will be come the second governor to be impeached after Kiambu\u2019s Ferdinand Waititu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonko blames corrupt cartels among Nairobi county MCA\u2019s over his impeachment. The embattled county boss has tabled documents before the senate where he has implicated a section of Nairobi county MCA\u2019s of siphoning money from the county government\u2019s education kitty to enrich themselves. When he got wind of it and stopped the pipes, the no &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}