Nairobi County governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko should not have been barred from office after being released on bail by the High Court.
The governor being out of office compounded by lack of a deputy has exacerbated leadership and administrative crisis in Nairobi County.
As he discharges his constitutional mandate outside his office, Sonko may not provide effective and efficient leadership as opposed to when his presence would be felt by his county officials.
If Sonko had appointed a deputy, then his responsibilities as a governor would have, up to some extent, been taken care of as he deals with the court cases facing him, but now that he is the only Nairobi's topmost leader, he has to run the country alone, an issue which might bring executive problems such as weak accountability process.
The leadership tribulations have been further extended to the County Assembly after Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (EACC) preferred charges of abuse of office and misappropriation of funds against Speaker Beatrice Elachi who could have acted in the Sonko's capacity incase the governor would be convicted.
“The speaker, in arbitrary abuse of her office, irregularly constituted the board in October at a time a functional gazetted one was in office," reads the letter written on behalf of EACC Chief Executive Twalib Mbarak as quoted by the Standard.
Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko was arrested and prosecuted over graft accusations. He was later released on a cash bail of Sh15 million and barred from accessing his office.
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