As the impeachment storm surrounding Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja continues to gather momentum, fresh details have emerged from Nairobi City County Assembly investigations, with legislators leaking documents that reveal questionable payments amounting to Ksh 60,866,140 made to several companies for goods and services that allegedly never reached county stores, in what MCAs are describing as a glaring example of entrenched corruption, systemic financial mismanagement, and abuse of public office under the embattled governor’s watch.
At the heart of the revelations lies a list of four suppliers: Lakev Enterprises, Larsen Investment Ltd, Istanbul Investments Limited, and Larsen Investments Company Limited, who together received five separate payments between February and July 2023, ostensibly for the supply of floodlights and drainage materials.
However, scrutiny of the electrical store on Ladhies Road and the material store at Nanyuki revealed no corresponding deliveries, no entries in the official records, and no inspection or acceptance certificates to verify the transactions.
The documentation before the Assembly indicates that Lakev Enterprises was paid twice, receiving Ksh 15,478,448 and Ksh 8,967,692 for floodlights, while Larsen Investment Ltd was paid Ksh 11,100,000, Istanbul Investments Limited Ksh 13,320,000, and Larsen Investments Company Limited Ksh 12,000,000 for drainage materials.
In total, these payments amounted to more than sixty million shillings but management has reportedly not produced supporting vouchers, requisitions, AIE approvals, tender documents, evaluation committee minutes, or even invoices to account for these multimillion-shilling disbursements.
For the MCAs spearheading the impeachment, these revelations are not isolated but rather form part of a wider pattern of procurement irregularities, dubious financial flows, and outright violations of law.
Legislators have raised alarm over ongoing construction activities on Haile Selassie Median and Moi Avenue service lane, where county resources such as machinery, fuel, and materials are reportedly being deployed without any documented contracts, in violation of the Procurement and Disposal Act, with the works being directed by Musyoka Mutiso, a known associate of Governor Sakaja, allegedly financed and supervised by Chief of Staff David Njoroge, a situation that not only represents a textbook case of conflict of interest under the Conflict of Interest Act 2025, but also underscores how public resources are commandeered for opaque projects that lack oversight, engineering supervision, or legal sanction.
In the Assembly’s dossier, these concerns are compounded by evidence of irregular payments funneled to law firms and senior staff members close to the governor, reportedly in collusion with Chief Officer of Finance Asha Abdi, further entrenching the perception of a systematic siphoning of county resources into private pockets, while critical services in health, infrastructure, and sanitation remain underfunded.
The portrait painted is one of an administration where accountability has been sidelined, financial controls eroded, and procurement processes reduced to mere formalities, if not bypassed altogether.
The 19 unconfirmed deliveries, combined with the absence of documentation across multiple payments, serve as a stark example of what MCAs argue is deliberate obfuscation designed to frustrate audits and shield senior officials from scrutiny, leaving the county exposed to significant financial loss and undermining public trust in governance.
Legislators have warned that unless urgent corrective measures are taken, Nairobi risks becoming a case study in how institutional capture and weak internal controls can hollow out public institutions and erode democratic accountability at the county level.
It is against this backdrop that the Sakaja impeachment motion has gained traction, with over 84 MCAs already appending their signatures, surpassing the constitutional threshold for tabling the charges.
The grounds for impeachment, as outlined by the legislators, cite corruption, financial mismanagement, abuse of office, procurement irregularities, and illegal use of public resources, with the evidence presented, including the list of companies paid millions without traceable deliveries, forming part of the core indictment.
Governor Sakaja, meanwhile, has reportedly turned to political heavyweights such as Raila Odinga and senior county leaders to help stave off the censure motion but MCA leaders insist that this is a member-driven initiative, independent of party hierarchies and anchored in a collective resolve to restore accountability at City Hall.
As the Assembly prepares for a special sitting to deliberate on the motion, the question is no longer whether the grounds for impeachment exist, as the documentary evidence is already piling up, but whether political alliances and interventions can alter the trajectory of a process that appears to have acquired both momentum and legitimacy in the eyes of the legislators driving it.
For now, the list of companies at the center of the Ksh 60.8 million procurement scandal stands as both a symbol and a catalyst, exposing the rot MCAs say has permeated City Hall under Sakaja’s administration and crystallizing the stakes in what is shaping up to be one of the most consequential county-level impeachment battles in devolved governance history.
