Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko on Sunday participated in the 2018 Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon CEO’s race moments after flagging off the 21 km race.
Before the start of the CEO’s race, Sonko was very much confident and promised to finish in the first position.
However, his promise went up in vain after he failed to grab the first position.
The Nairobi city county boss finished in the 8th position despite his confidence and promise to people that no one could defeat him since he had been practicing for the race.
Does this mean that the County boss can’t deliver on any of his promises? These are just but some of the speculations of some social media users who had heard Sonko’s promise in which they watched him fail to deliver.
Can’t deliver on any of his promises. Not any surprised. RT @citizentvkenya: Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi ‘Sonko’ participated in the CEO’s marathon and finished in 8th position despite promising to finish first #StanChartMarathon pic.twitter.com/VzFcG9tB6b
— Shaddz (@Shadddiez) October 28, 2018
However, on being asked the reason as to why he did not finish in the first position as he had promised, Sonko told a Citizen TV journalist that he was happy about the 8th position in which he had beat his Machakos counterpart Governor Alfred Mutua whom Sonko said that finished in the 17th position.
Nairobi Marathon is an annual road running competition over the marathon distance held in every month of October in Nairobi. The Marathon was first held in 2003.
As time went by, the competition expanded and now includes a half marathon race along with the main race.
It was part of “The Greatest Race on Earth”, fully sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank. The other three legs of this four-marathon race were the Hong Kong Marathon, the Mumbai Marathon and the Singapore Marathon.
The winners of the Marathon share a whopping Prize of 8,000,000 KES.
Since the launch of the Seeing is Believing initiative in 2003, the Bank has raised more than Sh250 million. Among the programmes funded so far include screening of 6.2 million people, 170,000 surgical interventions, training of over 2000 health workers and upgrading of more than 10 health facilities around the country.