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Mike Sonko (Mbuvi Gideon Kioko)

Date of Birth: 27 February 1975
Place of Birth: Mombasa


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State House has a problem with Nairobi's political boss

The precedent was set when the Nairobi Metropolitan Services office was used by former President Uhuru Kenyatta to take over health transport public works and utilities after Sakaja's predecessor Mike Sonko became embroiled in impeachment and criminal cases (AC Vol 61 No 10 A clumsy coup)...

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What does Raila Odinga want?

An attempt by former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko himself seeking a way back to political influence to have the demonstrations outlawed was defeated at the High Court and the Communications Authority's effort to ban TV stations from covering the demonstrations was also overturned by the courts...


New coalitions, old faces chase counties

Ann Kananu Mwenda who has been running the county as acting governor from January 2021 following the impeachment and ousting of Mike Sonko on corruption charges is not seeking election (Dispatches 28/1/21 Mixed signals about an election for a new governor in Nairobi)...


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Mixed signals about an election for a new governor in Nairobi

The next pitched battle between Deputy President William Ruto and the 'handshake' coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga is centred over whether and when a by-election to replace impeached Nairobi governor Mike Sonko should be held...

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The race for Nairobi

The crowd-pleasing previous governor a frequent embarrassment to the government Mike Sonko was impeached last year...


A clumsy coup

The image of suspended Nairobi governor Mike Sonko at State House wordlessly signing powers over to the national government in February appeared to symbolise the presidency's triumph in the long campaign for control of the city...


The year of the empty threat

On 6 October this year Kenyatta was back at Uhuru Market another slum with the new Nairobi governor Mike Sonko and the public sweeping away the rubbish...


Counting on the counties

Jubilee's Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is already positioning himself as a rival to one of the Nasa co-founders Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka as leader of the Kamba community putting him on a collision course with Alfred Mutua the new governor of Machakos County...


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