Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko at a past event [Photo/nairobinews.nation.co.ke]
Governor Sonko has invited the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to probe land cartels. The Veteran politician and governor pushed the probe at Lands and Legal departments housed at City Hall. Sonko wrote a letter to EACC, DPP Keriako Tobiko, DCI Ndegwa Muhoro, CJ David Maraga and Law Society of Kenya demanding for legal action against the land cartels. Sonko criticised cartels who engage in grabbing lands from innocent citizens and asked the responsible bodies to conduct the probe and ensure legal and just actions are taken. Governor Sonko took on former Nairobi governor, Evans Kidero, claiming that it was his(Kidero's) regime that engaged in land grabbing through the City Hall offices.
He said innocent citizens lost lands and property to cartels through backdoor schemes by Kidero's workers. “The purpose of this letter, therefore, is to invite your good offices to swiftly move in with speed and investigate fraud at the Rates Department at City Hall with immediate effect,” Sonko said in his letter dated October 6. Sonko added that earlier plans to undertake investigations against mass land grabbing by the cartels hit rocks when he was Senator. “Unlike in the past, I wish to assure you of my administration’s full cooperation and support that would see you carry out thorough, structured, consistent, fair and transparent investigations with a view to bring the suspects to book and to face the law,’’ Sonko stated in his letter according CitizenTV.