The Governor and the Senator of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, engaged in a fist fight after a heated argument during a Senate Public Accounts Committee session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The altercation reportedly began after Senator Mike Sonko accused Governor Evans Kidero of murder.<\/p>\n
The incident, which quickly escalated, forced the committee to adjourn the session indefinitely.<\/p>\n
Kidero was being questioned about misappropriation of funds during the 2013\/14 financial year.<\/p>\n
The altercation started after Sen. Sonko presented the committee with documents about illegal land rates in Nairobi. He reportedly became agitated after the panel dismissed his claims as “extraneous.”<\/p>\n
After the documents were dismissal, the senator is said to have banged on the tables and accused Kidero of murdering a woman in Nairobi.<\/p>\n
Sonko claims the woman, who Kidero and his Chief of Staff George Wainaina killed, was also ejected from her property worth 2 billion Kenyan Shillings ($20 million).<\/p>\n
To prove his accusation, Sonko presented another document which allegedly showed the transfer of the building. However, the committee also dismissed the report.<\/p>\n
“He is murderer and I cannot withdraw that. I have video clips to prove that I have no apologies to make,” Sonko said<\/a>.<\/p>\n A brawl broke out between the senator and the governor after the after the latter’s remarks.<\/p>\n Soon after the scuffle was brought under control, Kidero walked out of the session. He informed the committee that he will return to answer their questions in a more conducive environment.<\/p>\n According to the BBC, Kidero has denied<\/a> being punched by the senator. He claims to have blocked Sonko’s punch before it touched him.<\/p>\n “He never hit me. I just blocked his hand,” Kidero said.<\/p>\n The governor also dismissed the murder accusations Sonko made against him as “frivolous.”<\/p>\n Local sources say Kidero and Sonko, who are known not to get along, have a history of publicly trading accusations<\/a>.<\/p>\n [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bLuZmJg9p0w&w=640&h=360]<\/p>\n Photo\/Border Media Group: Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero (L) and Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko (R).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Governor and the Senator of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, engaged in a fist fight after a heated argument during a Senate Public Accounts Committee session on Wednesday. The altercation reportedly began after Senator Mike Sonko accused Governor Evans Kidero of…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2872,1],"tags":[4851,4966,4850,611],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Untitled-14-598x350.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10432,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions\/10432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}