Nairobi
Senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko has again proved that he is a Kenyan leader without
political, religious or ethnic boarders when he visited a four-year-old boy Ali
Mohammed at Bomu Hospital and donated Sh120,000.
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Ali had his leg amputated following a gun attack last week in which Mombasa
tycoon Shahid Butt was killed. Sonko who is known to offer both material and
financial aid to victims of different circumstances assure the family that he
would help Ali to get best medical attention.
Sonko
was reacting to Ali’s family appeal to well wishers to help Ali who is a pupil
at Raudhwa Junior Academy located at Port Reitz in Changmwe have him fitted
with a prosthetic leg so that he can walk again.
This
is not the first time Sonko is extending a helping hand to people in almost similar
circumstances. Early in the year, Sonko took in baby Satrin Osinya and his
brother Gift Satrin after Osinya was discharged from hospital after a success
operation to remove a bullet lodged in his head. He has since adopted baby
Osinya.
Sonko
is the quintessential philanthropist. He is everywhere, especially where
tragedy has gnashed humanity. He has remained to the Nairobian poor what mother
Teresa is said to have been to the destitute of Calcutta.
In
his own words, Sonko says “I learned to give not because I have much, not
because I want to show off, not because I want publicity but because I once
used to have nothing and I know exactly how it feels to have nothing. Serving
the people is serving the Lord”.
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