Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, on Saturday, April 11, turned up in Machakos County with a cargo container filled with foodstuffs, masks and hand sanitizers.
He immediately set out about handing the much needed items in his home town, Mua Hills shopping centre.
The governor's latest initiative came on the very day when the National Government outlawed the uncoordinated direct distribution of food and non-food donations and announced a framework that should be used when it came to such donations.
Through the Interior Ministry, it was announced that anyone willing to offer any form of support or donations to do it through the Kenya Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund and the offices of governors and county commissioners.
“Any donors and well-wishers who would like to contribute to the coronavirus response actions in Nairobi are asked to channel or co-ordinate their contributions through the Kenya Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund,” Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i said in his statement.
The Interior CS when on to share 0772 429949 as the telephone number to be used by anyone seeking to donate any form of aid or email addresses chair@covidfund.co.ke and secretariat@covidfund.co.ke.
The Nairobi Governor had on April 7, taken to his official twitter page to announce that he had banned from distributing foodstuffs and other essential items by the government.
“We also wish to notify the general public we have been banned from distributing foodstuffs to the needy until further notice,” he stated at the time.
A day before, 21 members of his Sonko Rescue Team were arrested at taken to Mbagathi Police Station for violating the 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew rule.
The latest directive by the National Government was instituted after ugly scenes were witnessed on Good Friday, April 10, as thousands of Kibra residents thronged the area deputy county commissioner’s office to receive foodstuff.
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga had donated supplies worth Ksh15 million, leading up to the chaotic scenes witnessed in the area as residents without protective face masks and disregarding the physical distancing guidelines flocked the office.
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