Nairobi County politicians have voiced their dissatisfaction with the way Governor Johnson Sakaja is running the county.
The leaders, led by Dagoretti South MP John Kiarie, accuse Sakaja's government of contributing to Nairobi County's deterioration by being the "most incompetent and morally degenerate" county government.
They highlighted sewage concerns, waste accumulation in residential areas, water shortages during flooding, and poorly designed high-rise projects.
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"It is our observation that Nairobi could be facing its worst leadership crisis at City Hall in the capital's history. The dream that was sold during the campaigns of a city of order, dignity, hope and opportunity has turned into a nightmare. Nairobi is becoming clamped in an ever-tightening chokehold of an arrogant and dangerously corrupt leadership," said Kiarie.
Kiarie cited a recent Auditor General report, which accused Sakaja's government of severe financial mismanagement, including payments to ghost staff and selective billing for bribes.
"In a shocking revelation last year, a junior officer wielding authority directly granted by the Governor clandestinely approved over 600 building plans against the Physical Land Planning Act which stipulates that the County Chief Officer is responsible for approving building plans," he said.
"That would explain the 'kiudutho' development and the unplanned highrise buildings that are mushrooming and cropping up in every corner of Nairobi. Such cases of abuse of power only give a preview of the rot house that is the Nairobi City County."
Kiarie also decried the acquisition of expensive assets by top Nairobi County authorities.
"Never before has Nairobi ever been pilfered so brazenly and with so much display of juvenile bravado, intimidation, exclusion and undermining of those who they are not able to pay with their looted billions," he said.
"Pitting leaders against each other and sponsoring squabbles has become the expensive hobby of the Governor and his court of loyalists."
