Former Embakasi South MP Irshad Sumra has hit out at Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko accusing of discrimination in the ongoing demolition of buildings in the city.
Sumra claims that the Nairobi Governor is allegedly favoring some people in the demolitions.
Reacting to a phone conversation between Governor Sonko and his Kiambu counterpart Ferdinand Waititu on Wednesday, Sumra asked the President to stop the demolition.
He alleges that the multi-agency team is selectively picking buildings to demolish adding that the whole process has been compromised.
“We feel the exercise is targeting certain people and ask His excellence to stop the exercise,” he told journalists at Air-Gate Mall in Embakasi on Thursday.
The former MP said that he is not against the demolitions on riparian land but stated that some of the buildings that have been demolished were not on riparian land.
“This is pure politics and must be stopped because the agenda is to make certain people suffer,” he claimed.
The former MP said that hundreds of people have already lost their incomes as a result of the demolitions.
The multi-agency team leading the exercise has vowed to continue noting that it has the blessings of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
On Thursday, the team issued two weeks’ notice to tenants occupying the Taj Mall to vacate.
The tenants have until August 30 to vacate the building that is set to be demolished.
Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta said that he had lost many friends as a result of the demolitions in the city.