VIDEO: Chaotic #JKLive Show Ends Prematurely As Sonko Drops Receipts On Passaris
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Thursday night's #JKLive talkshow was brought to a premature end after an extremely agressive Mike Sonko became ungovernable in studio.
Prior to the start of this week's show, a section of social media users labeled Jeff Koinange as sexist for hosting Mike Sonko just days after he publicly abused Esther Passaris.
Nevertheless, the show progressed and as many have described it, Sonko came well prepared and brought with him a huge bunch of documents to back his strong allegations against the Nairobi Women Representative.
Sonko began by defending his actions during Saturday's Madaraka Day and insisted that his utterances were simply a reply after he was publicly provoked.
He went on to accuse Passaris of constantly trying to swindle the Nairobi County government giving an example of how she demands for her per diems from both the National Assembly and the County; showing records of her various flights abroad which he claims were paid for by his county.
When asked to explain the genesis of their altercation, Sonko said that Passaris had been hired by a senior officer in the office of the President to attack him.
He also added that prior to the scene last week, the two had shared a very positive relationship and he even sponsored the ODM candidate's election campaign in 2017.
During the latter stages of the controversial interview, Sonko began to get really agitated and Jeff Koinange looked like he had completely lost control of the show.
Sonko kept bringing up the issue of how Passaris, who wasn't present to defend herself, invited him to a hotel room at Nairobi's Intercontinental Hotel despite knowing very well he was a family man.
This prompted the director to finally bring the storm to an end. What followed were endless commercial breaks before Citizen TV eventually brought a different programme on air.
As was expected, the interview sparked huge reactions on social media and we've sampled some of them below.
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