Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has denied claims that he hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful demonstrators during Tuesday’s anti-government protests.<\/p>\n
Sakaja’s denial came after a video clip went viral showing suspected goons leaving City Hall during the protests of Tuesday, July 2, 2024.<\/p>\n
Addressing the media on Thursday, Sakaja dismissed the claims, insisting that he was in Diani for his executive cabinet retreat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw a clip on Tuesday of alleged goons coming from City Hall. Some are claiming that I, the governor, was meeting these goons to plan violence. However, I was in Diani with my Cabinet doing our end-of-year retreat and I could not have planned such activities,\u201d Sakaja said.<\/p>\n
Suspected culprit<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Sakaja also claimed that one of the people seen burning City Hall works in the office of a Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n He demanded that the said MP and his aide be exposed so that the rule of law can take its course.<\/p>\n \u201cLet the politician and MP who sent them be known,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Sakaja insisted that he is a firm believer in clean politics and that he would never, at any time, advocate violence on the basis of different political persuations.<\/p>\n He further condemned the incident, stressing that security agencies would work to uncover the motive behind the said meeting at City Hall.<\/p>\n Criminal activities<\/strong><\/p>\n He also noted that the anti-government protests greatly affected revenue collection in Nairobi.<\/p>\n \u201cThe destroyed business and interruption of service denied the county the opportunity to hit the Sh13 billion record,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Last week’s and Tuesday’s protests, which took place across several counties, led to widespread destruction of property, and looting, leaving business owners grappling with significant losses.<\/p>\n Unlike the first week of the protests, the most recent ones have been characterised by widespread criminal activities in Nairobi.<\/p>\n Cases of arson, assault, muggings and robberies have been reported during the protests.<\/p>\n On Thursday, the planned demos failed to kick off in Nairobi County which remained largely calm, despite a heavy police presence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has denied claims that he hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful demonstrators during Tuesday’s anti-government protests. Sakaja’s denial came after a video clip went viral showing suspected goons leaving City Hall during the protests of Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Addressing the media on Thursday, Sakaja dismissed the claims, insisting that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}