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Sakaja calls NMS 'defilement of devolution', defends county record

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja during the State of the County Address on Wednesday, February 11 2026. [Governor Johnson Sakaja]

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has termed the 2020 creation of the Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS) a “defilement of devolution,” saying the agency left the county with a Sh16 billion hole in pending bills.

“In the year 2020, Nairobi got into a misadventure that ended up being costly. The NMS experiment left us with a 16 billion hole in pending bills, low staff morale due to mistreatment and a defilement of devolution,” said Sakaja.

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