Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has come out to disagree with Nairobi’s Governor Mike Sonko of banning 14 seater matatu in the CBD.
Mike Sonko through his county assembly had proposed that the 14 seater matatu should not be allowed to access this city. Although this move has received a lot of critisms from some of the stakeholders in the sector, the county government in conjunction with the ministry of Transport has issued any conclusive statement.
Kiambu Governor Waititu is so much against this move.
He reiterated his that no one should interfere with the matatu industry in regard to Sonko’s plan to bar 14 seater matatu’s from the CBD.
According to Waititu, 90 per cent of matatu operators in Kiambu rely on the 14-seater matatus.
“Nairobi belongs to everybody. He should respect matatu people as business people,” he said.
“Nobody has any right to wake up one day and just disrupt their businesses with the intention of making them bankrupt.”
Waititu alos denied ever having smoked bhang in his life.
In fact, he said, he has never consumed any type of drugs.
Waititu was responding to Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko who on January 23 claimed that the two used to smoke bhang together during their days as MPs.
Waititu, alias Baba Yao, said his firm stand against illicit brews in his home county is a testimony of his resolve against drugs.
"Sonko has no regard for anybody nowadays…" ~ Waititu #JKLive pic.twitter.com/OuyFe40VGV
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) January 30, 2019
He said he did not take Sonko’s claims seriously since he considers him a joker.
“In fact, if such utterances came from someone else, I could have gone to court over defamation. But since they came from Sonko, I know him. I know why he said it [and] I also don’t take him seriously,” Waititu said.