Acting Niarobi City County Secretary Jairus Musumba is a troubled man as dirty operations during the tenure of former governor Mike Sonko and Ann Kananu return to haunt him.
Musumba’s position has been advertised twice by the new administration over allegations that he lacks requisite qualifications to handle administrative matters.
Hew is finding things different from the Sonko era when survived by bribing corrupt officials at the Human Resource department not to advertise the position to allow him continue in an acting capacity.
Musumba was misused by Sonko and Kananu to alter a number of committee minutes to facilitate blatant looting and dubious payments to law firms.
He once jumped through the back window of his office to escape from CID detectives who were looking for county cash hidden in his office.
But cartels allied to the current Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja also argue that Musumba does not meet any leadership and integrity requirement as prescribed in Chapter 6 of the constitution and must be kicked out of City Hall.
The pressure to kick out Musumba intensifies as Governor Sakaja sets up a committee to probe the Sh21 billion pending legal fees inherited from the former administration of Ann Kananu.
Sakaja established the Kamotho Waiganjo led committee through a gazette notice dated January 16 2023 with firm instructions to submit a report in three months.
The 13-member committee also includes former nominated senator Sylvia Kassanga, Elias Mutuma, LSK President Eric Theuri, Aldrin Ojiambo and Farah Mohamed.
Others are Jackson Awele, Emily Chuele, Victor Swanya, Wangechi Wahome, David Kabeberi and Dickson Mwenze.
The previous administration used the same schemes employed by Nairobi’s first governor, Dr. Evans Kidero, who looted billion from the county coffers through dubious legal payments.
But Sakaja has assured Nairobi residents that all pending bills will be audited to establish the legit ones.
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) had in 2022 asked the county secretary to furnish it with the case files handled by some 26 law firms between 2013 and 2020 including case details, contract agreements and letters of instruction.
