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Disband Nairobi County and have it annexed to the national government

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Some of the medical equipment was displayed outside City Hall during Governor Johnson Sakaja's flagging off to level 2,3,4 hospitals and emergency operation centers. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Nairobi County takes the trophy for being the most scandalous of the 47 counties. From the formative days of devolution under first Governor Evans Kidero to Mike Mbuvi Sonko and now Johnson Sakaja, everything about Nairobi is dismal.

The nexus of all the negativity that perennially engulfs Nairobi is the menace of corruption perpetrated by faceless cartels, so powerful, that they siphon off Sh2 billion daily if former President Uhuru Kenyatta is to be believed.

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