Nairobi residents are this week expected to start adjusting to the reality of living under the governorship of Mike Mbuvi Sonko – the flamboyant and populist politician, whose plans for the city have excited and scared thousands in equal measure.
Powered to the high office by a slew of populist interventions and, as some would argue, the failings of an incumbent whose popularity was on freefall, Mr Mbuvi’s detractors felt his antics disqualified him from gunning for such high office.