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Election petition hearing against Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero begins Tuesday

Nairobi

By Geoffrey Mosoku | Jun 24, 2013

By Geoffrey Mosoku

Nairobi, Kenya: The hearing of a petition seeking to nullify the election of Evans Kidero as Nairobi Governor is set to begin Tuesday morning at the Milimani law courts.

Two weeks ago, Richard Mwongo directed the petition filed by former Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu should proceed after Kidero’s lawyers applied for striking out the case on technicalities.

Waititu wants the court to order the cancellation of certificate of election issued to Kidero and his running mate Jonathan Mweke on grounds that votes from seven constituencies were illegally cast in their favour by non-existent voters.

Even as Kidero awaits the court case, the ODM elected Governor has been busy building bridges with his party’s erstwhile rivals in TNA.

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On Sunday, Kidero became the first Governor to host President Uhuru Kenyatta for lunch at his posh Muthaiga home. Kiambu Governor William Kabogo and Nairobi senator Mike Sonko, and Interior cabinet secretary Joseph Lenku accompanied the president to the lunch meeting which took place between 3pm and 7pm.

Uhuru and Kidero had earlier attended the inauguration of Rev. Amos Mathenge Kabuthu as the fourth spiritual leader of the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA) at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.

After the function, the head of state and the city governor drove in a convoy, to Kidero’s home, with political observers reading political deal between the two.

Sources say both Uhuru and Kidero appeared easy and exchanged pleasantries and jokes that left their aides and those in the meeting in laughter.

Although, Kidero thrashed TN’A’s Waititu in the disputed polls, the president and the governor have been seen severally in public with Sunday’s lunch being the highlight.

Last month, Uhuru and Kidero used the presidential jet when they flew to Kisumu to attend the burial of former KNUT secretary general David Okuta Osiany. The city governor has also appeared almost in all public functions that the president has held in the city.

Meanwhile, Kidero has announced that city council askaris will begin an operation to remove street families and take them to rehabilitation centres.

The governor told the Standard yesterday, that his government had allocated over 100 million shillings for the refurbishment of the Joseph Kangethe and Kayole homes for the destitute which is now almost complete.

He said the exercise will be undertaken before Friday adding that the county employees will conduct the operation in the most humane manner.

“We have not competed the work at Joseph Kengethe and Kayole and you will see an operation from this Friday. But I must add that it will be done in the most humane way,” he added.

Dr. Kidero also said that he was working on a long term plan to address the hawkers’ menace that has left many city residents complaining that they have infiltrated the city centre.

He said the plan will have some streets allocated to the hawkers for a specific period of time.