Sakaja’s Narrow Escape: Power, Patronage, and Why Impeachment Stalled
Nairobi’s Governor Johnson Sakaja is caught in the cross-winds of finance, politics, and public anger. On paper, the numbers look fatal: overwhelming assembly signatures, long lists of alleged malfeasance, and service-delivery failures across the city. In practice, however, he survives—because impeachment in Nairobi is decided less by facts than by the political marketplace. Patronage, coalition bargains, and elite self-interest have combined to suspend a seemingly inevitable ouster. What follows is an anatomy of his predicament—and of the political logic that makes removal improbable for now. The Case Against Him: Overwhelming Signatures, Deep Service Failures By early September, 87 MCAs—about 71%…