Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho has rubbished claims that he is out to sabotage Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko's administration.
On Monday, Sonko said that Kibicho has been threatening him to pick a certain top Jubilee politician as deputy governor to fill the vacant position left by Polycarp Igathe.
"I'm telling Karanja Kibicho that a PS is a very small person to issue orders and threats to me. I only take orders from two people; the President and his deputy," he said during an interview with a local vernacular radio station.
But in a quick rejoinder, the PS said Sonko was hitting back after the government ordered him not to fly the national flag on his official car.
"The governor is tarnishing my name because I took away the national flag he was flying on his car. The law is very clear that if he needs to have a flag on his car it should the county flag and not the national one," he told Kameme FM through phone.
On the allegations that he was issuing orders to Sonko on how he should run city affairs, Kibicho said the governor was trying to cover his incompetence by shifting blame games.
"Don't disrupt me because I am not a voter in Nairobi, I vote in Kirinyaga. I don't even live in Nairobi, my residence is in Kiambu. So I don't have any interest in Nairobi politics," he said.
The PS further told the county boss: "Do your work without excuses, I am busy doing mine."