Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko appears to have rescinded his August pledge of working harmoniously with Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Boss Mohammed Badi.
A report by Citizen TV on Saturday, September 19, indicated that the governor had filed a notice of appeal to protest a court ruling that recognised NMS as a legally constituted entity.
The county boss vowed to continue challenging the constitutionality of NMS maintaining that it was illegally constituted despite having himself signed the deed of transfer at State House.
Through Kurauka and Company Advocates, Sonko noted that he was dissatisfied with Justice Hellen Wasilwa's ruling delivered on Thursday, September 17.
"Take notice that Hon. Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko, the 10th interested Party, being dissatisfied with the ruling by Hon. Lady Justice Hellen Wasilwa," Sonko's lawyers stated in a statement.
Wasilwa had reversed an earlier ruling that termed the transfer of functions from the County Government to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) as unconstitutional, declaring it legal.
In her statement, the judge explained that the transfer was legal and within the constitutional guidelines.
"Having found as above, I, therefore, find that the declaration of illegality of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services as created is now lifted.
"I also find that the deployment and secondment of 6,000 county staff to the newly formed agency by the Public Service Commission (PSC) was done within the correct framework of the law," stated Wasilwa.
After months of feuding, Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko and NMS Boss General Mohammed Badi in August, 2020 agreed to work together to deliver services to Nairobi residents.
Badi, however, dismissed Sonko's vow to work together with him as a public relations stunt for the governor noting that the county boss had engaged in several schemes aimed at undermining his work.
Sonko had also previously claimed that he was drunk on the day he signed the deed of transfer at State House, claiming that the affair was properly orchestrated leaving him no choice.
