Mike Sonko blaming his predicament on association with Deputy President Ruto.

Mike Sonko in trouble after meeting the Deputy President William Ruto at his Karen home, Nairobi, last week, just a few hours before threatening to withdraw the deed of transfer agreement he signed with the national government. He cited frustrations from State House ‘hijackers’.

“Being invited by the DP to his office is what you call Tangatanga. We have democracy and freedom of association in Kenya. The dark days of torturing people are over,” Sonko said ,according to The Star

Security officers and drivers withdrawn

On Friday, Sonko’s drivers and security officers guarding his Upper Hill private office and Mua Hills home were withdrawn and seconded to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services.

Yesterday, his spokesman Ben Mulwa questioned why the aides were only withdrawn after the governor met the DP.

“Why is it a problem when he meets the DP? Why is he being called Tangatanga because even last week he met Raila, and he been meeting even the President and he has never been branded this way.”

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The county boss further questioned why his visit to ODM leader Raila Odinga did not make such a big deal.“If any leader be it Kalonzo, Mudavadi, Wetang’ula, or even the DP and Raila again invites me for a meeting, I will honour that invitation for the respect I have for all our leaders,” he said.

“This frustration, humiliation and embarrassment won’t last forever. There is a living God in heaven who sees everything and whose time is the best.”

Mulwa doubted the rationale behind the withdrawal of the governor’s aides and termed it part of the wider plot by State House operatives to frustrate and embarrass his boss.

 Malicious move

“They have targeted senior officers in the inspectorate who work directly as his drivers or personal security. He is a governor and he is entitled to county security and drivers. In our view, it is malicious,” he reckoned. Sonko had also lamented early this month that the same “State House hijackers’ had taken advantage of the agreement, using it to attack him.

This is not the first time hiss bodyguards are being withdrawn. In January last year, his security detail was scaled down.

Inspector General Hilary Mutyambai had announced that all governors and MPs with graft cases would have their security detail withdrawn until clearance from the courts.

As a result, the county boss directed that at least 20 city inspectorate officers who were guarding county executives and chief officers to be withdrawn and go for fresh training to be part of his security