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Why first term senator Mong’are Okong’o wants to be Commander-in-chief

The hardships he encountered as a young person, he says, helped shape his future and imparted in him invaluable lessons about how to overcome life’s challenges in a just way. PHOTO: COURTESY

As a young barefooted boy, Kenya’s aspiring president Kennedy Mong’are Okong’o saw himself as a defender of the weak and stood firm against any kind of injustice meted on him or his friends at school.

The hardships he encountered as a young person, he says, helped shape his future and imparted in him invaluable lessons about how to overcome life’s challenges in a just way.

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