Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has dismissed claims that he travelled to Vietnam as part of the team sent by the Kenyan government to stop the execution of Margaret Nduta.
The former Governor clarified that he was still in Kenya and that the clip circulating on social media, purporting to show him in Vietnam, was fake.
A footage shared on TikTok claimed that Sonko had travelled to the Asian country, where he met Vietnamese government officials to address the looming execution of Nduta, a 37-year-old Kenyan woman found guilty of drug trafficking.
Sonko dismisses claims that he is in Vietnam over Nduta’s execution case. Photo:Courtesy.
According to Sonko, the clip allegedly showing him in Vietnam was actually from a photo he had taken alongside Chinese officials at his office in Nairobi.
“I have seen a fake story making rounds on TikTok that I have landed in Vietnam to stop Margaret Nduta’s execution. It is from a blogger who is alleging that I am in Vietnam.This is not Vietnam. From the photo, you can see my office watch and the background. The people in the photo are not even Vietnamese; they are Chinese,” Sonko noted.
Sonko moreover called on Ruto’s administration to intervene and arrest the main suspect who facilitated Nduta’s journey to the Asian nation.
He further advised to share her phone number with DCI to trace her travel history and identify the real culprit behind the drug trafficking case.
His remarks come hours after the Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary informed Citizen TV that a team of representatives from the Kenyan embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, had travelled to Hanoi, Vietnam, in a last-minute effort to save Margaret Nduta from execution.
Nduta was sentenced to death by a Vietnamese court after being found guilty of drug trafficking.
