This archive report was first published on 23 November 2019.
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is at the center of a corruption scandal involving Senator Johnson Sakaja and other legislators. The governor made the allegations on Facebook, stating that Sakaja received Ksh 1.5 million from a land grabber.
According to Sonko, the land grabber paid a total of Ksh 5 million to the legislators, with Abdi Guyo, the ousted Nairobi County Assembly Majority Leader and Matopeni MCA, acting as the middleman.
Sonko alleged that Makadara MP George Aladwa met Guyo at his town house and collected the bribe to be shared among the legislators, including Sakaja.
"The question to ask is, what changed between Thursday, November 14th, 2019, and Thursday, November 21st, 2019, for Sakaja to change his tune. Well, what changed is that Sakaja received Ksh 1.5 million from the Ksh 5 million collected by Aladwa from Guyo, Aladwa kept Ksh 1.5 million for himself," Sonko slammed.
Other legislators allegedly received Ksh 250,000 each after Aladwa and Sakaja shortchanged them, lying to them that they had only received Ksh 2 million from the land grabber.
