How Badi ‘finished’ Sonko
Even before his impeachment, Mike Sonko was already a governor without a portfolio having seen his powers considerably reduced when he signed the the Deed of Transfer of Functions in February.
The takeover by the national government effectively saw the former governor hand over to the State crucial county functions of health, transport, public service, utilities, and ancillary services, and county planning and development.
This led to the establishment of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) in March to head the functions with the outfit headed by Major General Mohammed Badi as its Director-General.
Consequently, this left the former City Hall boss with the control of less influential county departments including ICT and e-government, Education and Sports, Agriculture and Livestock, Trade and Cooperative and depleted Devolution, Environment and Finance sectors just on paper.
Two centres of power were created with Sonko being left a paper governor as Maj-Gen Badi took control of affairs of the capital city.
With a financial war chest of Sh27.1 billion for the transferred functions, accounting for more than two-thirds of the county government’s annual budget, the former governor was left with a paltry Sh8.4 billion at its disposal.
