Citizen TV anchor Yvonne Okwara took her war against Nairobi leadership style on live TV with the biggest target being the county's current governor Mike Sonko.
In a rather ridicule-laden serious-toned delivery, the skilled interviewer slammed the governor's Madaraka Day spat with Nairobi's Woman Representative Esther Passaris terming it as "a perennial curse".
"At the start of this month, Nairobi County residents and the country at large had ringside seats to a fight between the county's top leaders and we will assume that the word 'leaders' still means the same thing.
"What had been simmering behind closed doors explosively came to light on Madaraka Day with Governor Sonko's unsavory comments of the Nairobi County MP. This latest tiff took me down memory lane of what seems to be a perennial curse of leadership in the capital city," she disappointedly told her millions of viewers on News Gang show.
She condemned the governor's leadership style while bringing back bad memories about how past leaders of the county had repeatedly failed the city with shameful scandals.
She cited former Governor Evans Kidero's incident in which he publicly slapped the then woman representative Rachel Shebesh and the whole saga turned into a circus for weeks.
"Nairobi County surely deserves better. This is not just any other county. This is the capital city of the nation.
"It is the first encounter a majority of foreigners have with Kenya, What impression would a foreigner have should they have gotten should they have landed on Madaraka Day watching the news of squabbles between the two top leaders of the county?" she posed.
She further intimated that the scandals were a shame to the county that is one of the biggest cities in the continent and that hosts some world organisation's headquarters such as six biggest United Nations offices are located in the city.
She also made it clear that she was not taking Passaris' side stating that she would not call the gender card since "doing so could be an unnecessary setback of the genuine quest for those who seek to uplift women."
