Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko could learn a lesson or two from Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed on how to raise funds to beautify a city. The PM over the weekend hosted about 200 guests to a fundraising dinner to beautify Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa. Last year, Governor Sonko while appearing before the Senate’s Public Accounts and Investments Committee, told the Senators that he spent millions of his own money to give the city a facelift. The Auditor General later refuted Sonko’s claim by stating that City Hall had spent Sh18.7 million from the county coffers for the beautification programme. Beautifying Sheger, as the project is called, also involves cleaning the rivers and building recreational parks in the capital.

Source: Ethiopian News May 22, 2019 03:31 UTC