This archive report was first published on 8 September 2019.
On September 6, 2019, Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko was interrogated by detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) over alleged corruption in the Sh357 million garbage collection contract.
According to The Star, EACC detectives claim that some of the companies that won the tender wired more than Sh20 million to Sonko's bank accounts indirectly through proxies and sister companies.
Days after the interrogation, Sonko took to social media to deny the allegations, stating that he had enriched himself through unorthodox means before joining politics.
“Let's see who falls first. The allegations they raised against me have nothing to do with the current garbage collection probe by the EACC,” Sonko wrote on Facebook.
He added, “They [EACC] raised their allegations by copy-pasting the Auditors general report which was before the Senate. I have never and will never touch a public coin. Niliiba nikiwa raia nikatosheka na pesa (I stole enough when I was an ordinary citizen),”
