Embattled Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja narrated the struggles he underwent while growing up and how he conquered the challenges he faced, during an interview on Churchill Show on June 13, 2021.
According to the Senator, he bought his first car while still a student at the Nairobi University.
The Senator revealed he found motivation in his life aspirations and ambitions when he was a young student at Lenana High School,
“I used to run businesses back then. I had a laundry shop, kinyozi, and other businesses,” Sakaja stated.
Sakaja said used to wash people’s clothes and cook in order to raise money.
“We didn’t have money as a family then, so I set up businesses. I used to wash people’s clothes, cook… it wasn’t much but at the end of the day I would have five or six thousand shillings in a day,” he narrated.
From this money, he was able to buy first car.
In 2007, he joined politics, a move that further deepened his pockets.
“By the time I was in fourth year, I had joined politics during the days of President Mwai Kibaki so I had resources,” he recounted.
He further revealed that while in fourth year at UoN, he owned an apartment around Yaya Centre in Nairobi.
“I joined student politics so that I could run businesses and pay my school fees. Those days, when you were a university student leader, you had the opportunity to run a business,” he said.
Sakaja is one of the most admired youth politicians in the country, and has been idolised for his firm political beliefs and sense of reason.
He was elected Nairobi Senator in 2017, taking over from former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
