Mea culpa, on the other hand, is a Latin phrase meaning 'through my fault'. This week, Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja apologised for flouting Covid-19 curfew rules. He flouted this rule when he was caught revelling in one of Nairobi’s bars at 1am in the company of 10 other people. Begs the question, was Sakaja’s apology a sign that he was truly contrite, or he simply regrets that he got caught? So had Sakaja truly regretted his actions, he would have resigned from his Senate seat because resigning from being chair of an ad hoc committee costs him nothing.

Source: The Star July 25, 2020 02:03 UTC