The mheshimiwa even singled out athletics giants Ezekiel Kemboi and David Rudisha as the few who have made praiseworthy use of their legs. According to him, these and other athletes need their legs but the rest of Kenyans can focus on using other parts of their bodies. The former representative of people living with disabilities maintained that despite the disability, he had a wife and daughter, Rosemary, to write home about.
“Though I have a leg problem, I am handsome. My daughter is equally very beautiful and intelligent. She sat her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) last year at Kipsigis Girls High School scored a mean grade of A,” the father of seven said.
Sankok said that during his formative years, all he wanted was to be a fearless moran who would champion his peers into raiding other communities for cattle.
But his father sent him to school instead as punishment since he could not perform simple tasks like herding cattle.
Sankok was enrolled at Entontol Primary School and after siting his primary school education he joined Kericho High School where he performed well and was admitted at the University of Nairobi’s College of Health Sciences.
The former Student Organisation of Nairobi University chairman was, however, suspended from the University for leading a students’ strike but went to Norway where he pursued a diploma in medical research.
