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Virtues and not vices should define a politician’s purpose

Johnson Sakaja is just Mike Sonko with better manners.  We know that the Senator for Nairobi would never call people “takataka” on social media like the Nairobi governor did last week. We also now know that Sakaja could do this and worse, but only when he thinks that the public is not watching. 

We know this because when he was arrested for breaking the curfew, his menacing side surfaced. Our most dignified, levelheaded, senator did the last thing we expected him to do. He responded in the typical: ‘Do you know who I am?” 

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