• According to Mutua, Alai is part of the mess in the City County alongside many other elected Ward representatives.
• He said that Alai should stop spending most of his time on social media crying about things he can work with other leaders to solve.
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Azimio spokesman Makau Mutua and Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai have engaged in a heated exchange on X, over Governor Johnson Sakaja's management of Nairobi County.
According to Mutua, Alai is part of the mess in the City County alongside many other elected Ward representatives.
He said that Alai should stop spending most of his time on social media crying about things he can work with other leaders to solve.
He mentioned a case where roadside sellers have invaded road spaces and built kiosks, especially in the Westlands area.
"For example, for two years now, the residents of the Raphta Road/Church Road in Westlands have pleaded with him to get the illegal kiosks erected on the roadside removed without success. People eat and relieve themselves in public there leaving garbage and waste strewn all over," Mutua said.
"The area is becoming a den of muggers, rapists, and thieves. Recently, there was a lynching/killing and daylight theft in a high end grocery. Alai should do his job instead of living on social media posting all day," Mutua said.
He further questioned what other elected leaders are doing instead of focusing on solving such concerns.
Mutua also called on the Ministries of Interior and Transport to intervene, insisting that the county government has failed.
While responding to the same, Alai said that he is happy to be with other county legislators as Mutua had said.
He stated that he will not render poor traders working hard to earn a living jobless.
Alai insisted that the said traders have a right to trade without Makau Mutua's intrusion.
"I am happy to be together with fellow MCAs in your eyes because I refuse to render poor traders jobless and condemn them to economic misery.
"Prof, those traders have a right to ply their trade without your snobbish character intruding into their honest endeavours. I thought you were teaching in Buffalo NY. You have come to render people jobless?" he posed.
Alai has been a fierce critic of the Sakaja led administration.