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Kenya: Sonko, Badi Brace for Another Round of Supremacy Battle

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Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director General Mohammed Badi and Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko could be headed for another supremacy battle over implementation of projects in the capital.

This comes after NMS took exception with a post crediting Governor Sonko with an ongoing street lighting project in Mlango Kubwa Ward in Mathare constituency, Nairobi County.

SHORT-LIVED TRUCE

The post pointed out that the repair and installation of streetlights in Mlango Kubwa Ward have been done by the governor and area MCA Patricia Mutheu rather than NMS, drawing the fury of the new office.

“We have noted with concern that some persons in Nairobi County are taking credit for ongoing street lighting projects by NMS. As NMS, we categorically and clearly state that this street lighting program in Mlango Kubwa Ward 8, was undertaken by us on July 9, 2020,” read a post on NMS’s Facebook page.

It is only last month that a deal was struck between Badi and Sonko to see the two work together in service delivery to Nairobi residents with President Uhuru Kenyatta calling out on the latter to work closely with NMS team to ensure quick turnaround of interventions being implemented in Nairobi.

However, the truce seem to have been short-lived with NMS telling off “some persons in Nairobi County” of taking credit for work done by the office.

With no love lost between the two offices, the Major General Badi-led team stated that it does not wish to engage in any supremacy battles with anybody lest they get distracted from implementing the four county functions under the new outfit for enhanced services provision in Nairobi.

The new office made it clear that the function is one of the services that were transferred in the Deed of Transfer between the County Government and National Government, which saw the establishment of NMS on March 18, 2020 by President Kenyatta.