Mike Sonko Foots Sh270,000 Medical Bill for Raila Supporters Detained by Migori Hospital

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko on Thursday footed a Sh270,000 bill for five National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters injured during anti-election protests in Migori town last week.

The five had been detained at St Joseph Ombo Mission Hospital in Migori after failing to clear the huge medical bill.

The five were admitted at the facility after sustaining serious gunshot wounds from beatings by anti-riot police officers after chaos broke out on Friday following the October 26th repeat presidential election.

However, Uriri MP Mark Nyamita and other leaders from Migori dismissed the offer by Sonko, terming it an insult to the brutality victims.

The leaders claimed that Sonko had been sent by Jubilee to bail out the five victims with blood-stained money.

“I have information that Jubilee through Nairobi Governor Sonko is dishing out money to hospitals in Nyanza where our people are recuperating from ostensibly to cater for their bills of the victims of jubilee-sanctioned police brutality,” said 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 choking under garbage, or he can equally use it to buy good manners.”

The five are said to have contacted Sonko after realizing the bill was accumulating the more they stayed at the hospital.

Speaking to journalists at Ombo Hospital, the victims thanked the county boss for coming to their aide. “We are grateful to Sonko for settling our bill as we can now get out and start our normal lives,” David Ouma Okong’o, one of those hospitalized, said.