Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko was on Monday slammed with a Ksh500,000 over his failure to honour summons to appear by the Senate.
The Senate Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) reached the decision after Sonko snubbed the summons for the third time.
Sonko was required to appear before the Senate Committee to answer to audit queries relating to Governor Evans Kidero's tenure.
On August 6, Sonko sent Charles Kerich, county executive in charge of the Land docket, to answer questions raised by Auditor General Edward Ouko.
The Senate County Public Investment Committee refused to listen to Kerich insisting that only the governor could address the issues the chief auditor had raised in the 2014/15 financial year report
The Committee Chairman Senator Moses Kajwang' issued another summon for the county boss, warning of a fine should he fail to appear again.
"The Senate will not be taken into a charade and our business is to have the governor appear before us and answer how billions of money was spent in the county.
"We cannot listen to a county secretary who has written to us," Kajwang’, who is also the Homa Bay Senator stated.
Sonko, through his county secretary, had written to MPs informing them that he was unwell and needed the meeting rescheduled.
Kajwang’ indicated that Sonko couldn't be allowed to delegate the responsibility of responding to audit questions to CECs or any other officials in his administration.
"Governors have constitutional obligation to personally appear before this committee. They cannot hide behind CECs or any other person.
"They must appear before in person to give an account of how they spend the funds allocated to counties," he added.
