Nairobi Assembly Speaker Beatrice Elachi has said Miguna Miguna will be vetted and approved by the county Assembly.

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She said they will do so because Miguna is Governor Mike Sonko's choice.

The embattled lawyer was deported to Canada twice and the government has refused to give him a Kenyan passport unless he applies for one.

Should Miguma's approval as the DG come, he will automatically be entitled to a diplomatic passport, meaning he will gain entry to the country.

Speaker Elachi noted that Sonko and Miguna have rights to the nomination and that they are fully behind the county boss.

"On the day he comes back, we will vet him. We have no choice... I mean, he is the Governor's choice ... we will respect that," Elachi said.

She is expected to table Miguna's name as the Assembly will be on recess until then.

Sonko sparked conversation about the city's future and the nature of politics in Kenya by nominating Miguna following Polycarp Igathe's resignation in January.

The nomination exposed rifts in Jubilee Party, with some rejecting the candidate and saying he will not become DG in. 

Senator Johnstone Sakaja, in particular, dismissed the appointment saying the self-styled NRMKe general will not become the DG

Elachi called for a truce between the national and county governments and alluded to the former's lack of respect for agreement on how the two levels should work.

The Speaker asked the national government to respect the Constitution that gives Sonko powers to run Nairobi independently.

The Speaker asked the President, who has remained mum in the Sonko-Miguna matter, to mediate and show the way forward.

Elachi said that if the national government is fighting Sonko because of county functions, Uhuru should bring a Memorandum of Understanding before the Assembly for ratification.

"We can then agree on the way forward," she said.

"We have had enough between the Governor and the Secretary. Uhuru should now intervene and end the fight between Sonko and senior officials within government."

Interior PS Karanja Kibicho, who is in charge of the security docket, has recently been accused by the Governor of being at the centre of a plot to sink him politically.

Elachi also said the Nairobi chief should not be castigated for underperforming.

It is a spectacular turnaround by the speaker who recently told HOT96 that they will not vet Miguna.