At 31, Hon. Sakaja is one of the youngest political leaders at his level in the country and in the continent of Africa. Sakaja is also the Principal Partner of Arthur Johnson Consultants which offers financial and strategic advisory services to business entities in the region.

Parliamentary Record:

  • He is the Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (Senate and National Assembly) on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity.
  • Chairman, Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association which consists of 47 Members of The National Assembly and Senate who are below the age of 35 as well as 417 Members of County Assemblies.
  • Member of The Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade.
  • Member of the Parliamentary House Business Committee.
  • He sponsored The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015 that provides “30% Procurement Reservation Criteria” in all government agencies for Youth, Women and Persons living with disability.
  • He also drafted the National Youth Employment Authority Bill which was recently signed into an act by H.E President Kenyatta.
  • He is a member of the Creative Economy Working Group that is hosted at the Office of The Deputy President by the Social Investment Focused Agenda SIFA
  • He is in the Open Government Partnership steering committee as the only Kenyan legislator

Hon. Sakaja began his foray into national politics through student politics at the University of Nairobi.  He has been in involved in National Politics since the 2005 Constitutional Referendum and played a key role in the 2007 re-election of Retired President Mwai Kibaki. He also assembled the team that got President Uhuru Kenyatta elected into office in 2013.

Sakaja was also instrumental in the constitution making process being a key consultant to the Committee of Experts and the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution on the issue of Representation and helped formulate the formula for delimitation of electoral boundaries in Kenya.

Hon. Sakaja has also co-authored a book in collaboration with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ – Kenya Chapter) on Representation and Fiscal Decentralization having particularly written on the Operational Framework for Devolution in Kenya.

In 2016 & 2017 Africa Youth Awards named him among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, an initiative instituted to promote African youth movements and achieving and also restoring excellence in the works of young people across Africa.

He was also ranked among the 2016 Avance Media and Jagari Designs’s 100 Most Influential Young Kenyans