This archive report was first published on 11 May 2021.
On a late Sunday night, former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko made an unexpected encounter with a student heading to school. The student, who was on transit from Kisii, had been sleeping at an outdoor bench in a highway motel due to lack of transport.
Moved by her situation, Sonko decided to take action. He took her to a nearby supermarket, where he asked her to pick anything from the shelf, assuring her that he would pay for it.
According to Sonko's Instagram post, he was touched by the student's situation and wanted to help. He wrote,
“Students your parents sacrifice alot to make you study some of you undergo very difficult situations in the process of learning. While on our way back to Nairobi,I stopped for a short call and was very much touched to find a school girl sleeping on the bench at a highway hotel coz there was no means of transport,”
He also offered to have his team escort her to school, but she declined the offer.
Before parting ways, Sonko arranged for the motel staff to provide her with a room to spend the night before continuing her journey to school.
