Kenya: Sakaja’s Late Athlete Mother Honored With National Heroes Award

Emily Ayoti Kubasu Sakaja, mother to Johnson Sakaja, was awarded the National Heroes Award on Friday, December 6.

The Nairobi Governor received the award together with his siblings on behalf of their mother, who was conferred the prize posthumously.

Sakaja took to his X platform to reveal this development, thanking President William Ruto, Culture, Arts, and Heritage Principal Secretary Ummi Bashir, and the National Heroes Council for recognising his late mother, a sporting pioneer in Kenya.