Nairobi County Governor Johnson Sakaja has denied allegations that he held a secret assembly with Gaucho and Swaleh to plan how goons would disrupt Nairobi protests.
Reports had alleged that, earlier than the protests, the governor met with a number of leaders, together with Gaucho, a sitting Nairobi MP, an MCA, and the notorious Swaleh, and issued them with funds to sponsor the goons.
According to the allegations, the governor launched Ksh2 million and gave it to Gaucho to mobilise goons to neutralise protestors utilizing machetes and rungus, and to sponsor chaos.
In a fast rejoinder, Sakaja distanced himself from the allegations, clarifying that he was not within the metropolis on the stated day. While offering proof, the governor revealed that he had travelled to Lugari and didn’t convene the alleged assembly.
A collage of Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja and goons who had infiltrated protests in Nairobi’s Central Business District on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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Johnson Sakaja Akbas
“Such blatant lies. On Sunday, I used to be in Lugari for Church and got here again to Nairobi on Monday afternoon by means of Kitale. Ticket under. I’ve not seen Gaucho since he attended the Mukuru Housing Launch or Swaleh in lots of months,” Sakaja clarified.
According to the tickets offered by the governor, he had travelled from Kitale to Nairobi on Monday, June 16, at 10 am, disregarding the allegations that he was within the metropolis on Sunday and carried out the assembly as alleged.
Gaucho additionally responded to the allegations, claiming that he was not in Kenya and that the claims that he had met with the governor to rearrange the disruptions had been fabricated lies.
Nairobi CBD witnessed chaos on Tuesday, June 17, after youths took to the streets to demand justice for the demise of Albert Ojwang, who died whereas in police custody.
What started as peaceable requires justice rapidly escalated into chaos, looting, and operating battles between police and youths. Goons descended on the streets, destroying and looting companies.
The governor reiterated his earlier statements that the goons weren’t affiliated along with his workplace and condemned the violence as legal.
He urged the National Police Service to arrest these accountable and insisted the gangs had been ‘introduced in from outdoors Nairobi’.
“We strongly condemn the destruction of private and non-private property witnessed final week, perpetrated by employed goons introduced in from outdoors Nairobi,” he added.
Bunge La Mwananchi President Calvince Gaucho (Left), Langata MP Felix Oduor (Centre) and ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga (Right) throughout a previous occasion in Nairobi.
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