Sonko Wanted Sh7 Million From Me - Wainaina

Nairobi County Chief of Staff George Wainaina on Thursday accused Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko of trying to extort Sh7 Million from him.

Wainaina claimed that the Senator used Nairobi TNA Chairman John Mwinami and one Brian Mugo to ask for the amount in order to have the case against him withdrawn.

According to documents presented in court, Mr Wainaina further claimed that the two called his two brothers with the same demand but were unsuccessful in their plan.
The Governor's aide sued Sonko a few days after he was arrested and charged alongside his secretary Roslyn Aluoch, for trying to bribe the Senator with Sh1 Million.

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy CEO Michael Mubea, said the bribe was meant to be an inducement to Sonko to have a suit he filed over Loresho plot owned by Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company dropped.

However, Wainaina through his Lawyer Ochieng' Oduol, said in his application at the High Court that Sonko's press release on January 4 was unconstitutional, since he assumed the mandate of investigation which rests with the Anti Corruption Commission and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

“It is now clear that the DPP and EACC have abdicated their constitutional and statutory mandates to Sonko, or are working in concert with the respondent in running a mafia-style cartel that extorts the innocent mwananchi,” Oduol was quoted by the Star.

Wainaina said that the DPP and EACC moved to arrest him after Sonko's press release, without conducting sufficient investigations into the matter. 

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