Nairobi senator Mike Sonko has dismissed claims that he is selective in his fight against land-grabbing, and that he has watched over the eviction of poor and defenseless Kenyans from their homes.
Sonko was reacting to claims on social media that his war on land-grabbing favoured Asians and those from his community.
“I vowed to serve all Nairobians irrespective of their race, ethnicity or political affiliation. I have over 30 cases, including a 74-year-old widow, Judith Njenga, who was ejected from her billion-shilling family home in Upperhill a few months ago,” Sonko said.
There were online claims that Sonko’s ‘timely’ response to evictions was suspicious. A Martin Nyakundi, said to be a employee of a city gubernatorial aspirant, lambasted Sonko on a WhatsApp group thus:
“By mathematical probability, this is not possible. All factors can never be constant in any undertaking of such nature. It is therefore obvious that the entire scenario is pre-planned, premeditated and choreographed by Sonko himself to hoodwink and cheat the public”.
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Sonko dismissed the claims as the work of his political enemies. He said that he always tags the media on his rescue missions to expose land-grabbers because law enforcers have failed to protect land owners.
“It is the aggrieved people who make distress calls to me to come to their rescue. I will not responding to these calls. I will not entertain any kind of nonsense. I will deal with the cartels fearlessly,” Sonko responded.
An elderly couple from the Asian community was recently thrown out of their home and their house demolished by a developer on grounds that their lease had expired. Many others families have lost their homes.
