This archive report was first published on 15 November 2019.
Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko has filed a petition to stop the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission from investigating him, pending the determination of the case.
According to the petition, filed on Thursday, Mr Sonko has been summoned to EACC four times in the past three months over what he termed as malicious allegations instigated against him.
He claims that most of the allegations levelled against him have been instigated by the Director of Investigations at EACC, Mr Abdi Mohamud, to settle scores with the petitioner.
Mr Sonko alleges that this was after he blew the whistle over the illegal sale of Integrity Centre, a matter he said he reported in 2014 but four years down the line, no investigations have commenced.
"The respondents have and continue violating the provisions of the Constitution and the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Act No. 3 of 2003 by sitting on, eradicating, diluting and/or distorting crucial evidence gathered in the course of investigations so as to skew investigations undertaken to favor their preferred outcomes," he said in a sworn statement.
He complains that EACC has caused the arrest of innocent individuals aligned to him, who are against the malicious acts and arraigned them in court based on frivolous claims that do not meet the threshold of prosecution.
