Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko at Bomas of Kenya on August 11, 2017. [Photo: Nairobi News]
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko’s move to clear medical bills for the survivors of police brutality in Migori has not gone down well with local leaders.
Sonko, known for his philanthropic nature, cleared the bills for the five patients St Joseph Ombo Mission Hospital.
The patients had sustained serious injuries during a clash with police in the rea which broke out over the repeat presidential poll.
Uriri MP Mark Nyamita rubbished Sonko's gesture and termed in an insult.
The legislator accused Sonko's party, Jubilee, of sponsoring the police brutality.
“I have information that Jubilee through Nairobi Governor Sonko is dishing out money to hospitals in Nyanza where our people are recuperating from ostensibly to cater for their bills of the victims of Jubilee-sanctioned police brutality,” Nyamita said as quoted by Daily Nation.
The MP said Sonko's money had been tainted.
“We are telling Sonko to keep his blood stained money to himself. Let him use the money to pay Nairobi county employees who have gone for months without pay or better still use it to clean the city, which is chocking under garbage, or he can equally use it to buy good manners.”