President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday, October 22, appointed Danvas Makori as a board member of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC).
Makori, who is the son-in-law to former Starehe MP Maina Kamanda, was a former Finance CEC in the Nairobi City County before he was fired in March 2018.
He is said to have been axed by Nairobi Governor, Mike Mbuvi Sonko, for allegedly plotting to ransack the county's accounts.
Speaking during an explosive interview on NTV in May 2019, the governor revealed that despite sustained criticism from Kamanda that he had described as "insults", he had hired Makori based on merit.
Sonko claimed he soon got wind of an elaborate scheme to steal from taxpayers through his vast network of informants.
They informants Sonko alluded to, claimed that Makori, who had also served during former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero's tenure, had been working with the former governor's Personal Assistant (PA) John Osogo in the plot.
In a message that he read out on live TV, Osogo allegedly was advising Makori that the county's treasury had asked that they try raking in a smaller amount of money from the accounts to minimize suspicion.
"Good morning Makori, hope the rest of your weekend was good, just saw some officers from the treasury and they said we try a small figure of Ksh10 million each week and see how that pans out," part the message read by Sonko allegedly attributed to Osogo said.
"Don't worry about my boss, he pretends to be smarter than us but he's just an academic dwarf," the former CEC allegedly responded in another text message read by Sonko.
It is at this point that Sonko convened a cabinet meeting, confronted his finance CEC and went on to dismiss him.
