Ousted Nairobi governor Mike Sonko took to social media in January 2021 to defend his record in office, giving a lengthy list of his supposed achievements.
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in turn, Sonko said, had little to show for his term in office. The two former allies have in recent months fallen out politically.
“Despite borrowing over KSh8 trillion in the last eight years, what does the president have to show apart from unprecedented unemployment, poverty and hopelessness in millions of Kenyans?” Sonko asked.