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True or false? Sakaja's story of troubled past and his big break

Johnson Sakaja, seated second right, during the 2012 TNA - URP pact signing ceremony. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was little known before 2013.

Like a dynamite, the governor hopeful sprang from political backseat to occupy a central role in the former President Mwai Kibaki’s succession.

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