Sonko in trouble for settling hospital bills of Migori chaos victims
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko’s decision to clear medical bills for the survivors of police brutality in Migori has been met with criticism from a local politician.
Mr Sonko cleared the arrears for all the five patients who had been detained at St Joseph Ombo Mission Hospital after they failed to raise Sh270, 000.
They sustained serious gunshot wounds and soft tissue injuries from beatings by police in chaos that broke out after the repeat presidential poll last Thursday.
This was the second time in two months Mr Sonko was helping victims of accidents and police brutality in Migori.
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Last month, he cleared the bill of a woman injured after a truck veered off the road and killed her children, injuring her seriously.
But Uriri MP Mark Nyamita dismissed Mr Sonko’s assistance, terming it an insult to the victims.
“I have information that Jubilee through Nairobi Governor Sonko is dishing out money to hospitals in Nyanza where our people are recuperating ostensibly to cater for the bills of the victims of jubilee-sanctioned police brutality,” said Mr Nyamita.
“We are telling Sonko to keep his blood stained money to himself. Let him use the money to pay Nairobi county employees who have gone for months without pay or better still use it to clean the city, which is chocking under garbage, or he can equally use it to buy good manners.”