Settle your differences as country mourns KDF heroes, Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero tells Jubilee and CORD leaders

Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has asked government and opposition leaders to use this mourning period to settle their differences.

Kidero said this is the time leaders from the two warring political fronts should unite and focus on the major challenges facing the country.

“We are going through a hard time as a country and such problems can only be solved when leaders meet and talk together on matters that affect the citizens,” he said.

Kidero said no solution for Kenyan problems will be found if leaders from the different coalitions continue to squabble.

“We need to put needs of our citizens first like the way opposition and the government leaders joined hands together on Friday to mourn our fallen KDF heroes with a united message against Al-Shabaab,” he said.

Kidero was speaking during a fundraising in Kangemi attended by Westlands parliamentarian Tim Wanyonyi whom for some time were not seeing each other eye to eye.

Referencing to his county, Kidero decried that cartels have taken over operations at city hall sabotaging his development programmes.

“But I vow to you, I will have them all wiped out. I know some of them date way back during President Kenyatta’s regime but they have to know they have no place in my government,” vowed Kidero yesterday.

He cited the environment and lands docket in his government as the most affected: “we pay over Sh50 million every month to have garbage collected in Nairobi’ central business district but it amazes me when pass through the city in the morning it is like we did nothing.”

Kidero argued that such incidents are what prompted him to reshuffle the cabinet effective January 22, in a bid to streamline service delivery and weed out corrupt workers.

This he said was mainly vital in the finance department which has been sluggish in recovering Sh43 million the county is owed by State and public institutions.