Governor-elect Mike Sonko's Initiatives and Orders Within a Week of Election

Nairobi Governor-elect Mike Sonko is already hard at work with only a week after he was overwhelmingly elected by Nairobi voters.

The immediate former Senator of Nairobi has initiated two projects under the "Operation Ng'arisha Jiji" banner and issued his first gubernatorial edict.

Youth from his non-governmental organization, Sonko Rescue Team, have embarked on an exercise of cleaning up the city.

The group kicked off the operations with clearing garbage along Aga Khan Walk within the CBD, a day after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared President Uhuru Kenyatta had won the presidential election.

Here is a video the Governor-elect posted on his Twitter handle.

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On Tuesday, the team began to pull down posters that had been put up around the city during political campaigns.

Sonko dispatched 50 truckfuls of his team members to carry out the task in a move that surprised many Nairobians.

After the deployment, Sonko stated: "The cleaning campaign will continue until Nairobi is declared the cleanest city in Africa".

Read More: Sonko's Team Surprises Nairobians in City Clean-Up [PHOTOS]

The newly elected Governor also decreed, in a Tweet, that photographers will no longer be harassed by county council askaris.

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