Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is still insisting on how officers from Edward Ouko-led office asked for bribe in exchange of a good report.
He has now called for the suspension and investigation of auditors who wrote the 2017/2018 financial reports for Nairobi and Kiambu Counties.
Speaking in Roysambu constituency after his county’s monthly clean- up, Sonko faulted the auditor’s saying they wrote a negative report for Nairobi County after he refused to bribe them and a favourable one for Kiambu County which was discredited by the Senate watchdog committee.
“The same auditors went to Kiambu and they were given what I refused to give them, so they wrote a better report only to come before the Senate and so many issues were unearthed, and the committee rejected that report. I want to tell the Senate committee, if you are serious with your oversight role and you want to get rid of corruption; these auditors should be suspended until the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is done with its investigation,” said Sonko.
He has further called on politicians and those who critique his beautification project to shun away from politicizing the initiative insisting that he uses his personal money.
“We will continue planting the flowers, we will continue cleaning our county and those who are blind to what we are doing should ask the UN Habitat. Stop politicizing something that has no national budget allocation and finally people should stop being envious of what I am doing,” Sonko said.
While appearing before the County Public and Investment Committee on April 30, Sonko was pressed to explain how Sh18mn was spent on Nairobi beautification.
According to the Auditor General’s report, which Governor Sonko discredited and alleged that the auditors asked for a bribe, Sh98mn claimed to have been paid to a company associated to Meru Senator Mithika Linturi could not be accounted for.