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Why Sonko Is Now Half A Billion Cash Suspect
Jul 6, 2020
By any measure, no one can doubt that Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is a generous politician who gifts anyone and everyone he comes across.
This benevolence has even caught the eye of sleuths who are giving him sleepless nights after going for his accounts on an allegation that he has been illegally siphoning money from Nairobi County Government, a claim he denies.  
According to sources on Monday, July 6, investigators say in court documents that from his donations, which the public knows, he is a man of means who does not need money in 10 accounts that are now at the heart of a classic war with Asset Recovery Agency (ARA).
The case will now be heard by a third judge.
Sonko wants his accounts unfrozen, saying there is no evidence of crime. He is suffering for lack of money, he says. But the ARA insists there are enough pointers to doubt the source of his wealth.
“It has been in the public domain that the respondent (Sonko) has been philanthropic in making donations which only shows that he is capable of providing for his living expenses, therefore the preservation orders will not cause him any hardship or deprive his means to provide for his living expenses,” the agency’s latest reply to Sonko’s application to lift the freeze orders, reads in part.
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