Friday, July 5, 2024 – Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja had a very rough time yesterday after Senators cornered him over the Sh16 billion garbage tender that he allegedly awarded to President William Ruto’s crony, Oscar Sudi, and others.
While appearing before the
Senate Committee on Finance and Budget, Senators gave Sakaja a 14-day ultimatum
to explain how waste-collecting companies received tenders.
He was instructed to provide a
comprehensive written explanation within 14 days.
In the directive, the governor
was instructed to submit evidence of the work done to necessitate payment of
such magnitude.
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna
while commenting on the matter, termed the issuance of the tenders to the said
companies illegal.
The ODM Secretary General called
for an investigation into the matter, claiming the companies were part of the
syndicate siphoning taxpayers' money.
“This is criminality, it is absolute
criminality, you will see from the documents provided that a company is
charging the county twice for the same service, so the concern that Senator
Khalwale is raising is very valid,” Senator Sifuna argued.
"Governor you must explain
to us, a correlation between these pending bills especially in the area of
solid waste management and the problems we are going through right now as a
county because there are a lot of complaints that the county government is not
collecting garbage."
Sakaja while defending himself
urged the committee to summon the officials of the defunct Nairobi
Metropolitan Services (NMS) to account for Ksh16 billion in pending bills.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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