Dennis Obili Ogolla followed the advice given to him by his parents and teachers: go to school, work hard, do well, and the job market will welcome you with open arms.
As Ogolla followed his studies up to the Masters level but is presently a hawker selling cooked eggs on the streets of Nairobi, it is hyperbole that has stayed just that—rhetoric.
The firstborn of a family of six revealed that he has applied for over 5,000 jobs since graduating, but none have been successful in an interview on Afrimax.
Despite being qualified and competent enough, he said, “I truly sent so many applications and I wasn’t successful.”
He was knocked back to his gloomy childhood, when he had hoped to excel in life to support his poor family.
This is because he is the only member of his family with a college degree; his two brothers and three sisters have only completed high school.
Ogolla claims that he saw the financial upheaval in his family and invested everything in education because he thought it was the only route out of poverty.
Despite having earned a degree in business and economics, Ogolla is unable to say the same at this time.
The most intriguing component of Ogolla’s education is that he schooled with influential people in the country among them Deputy President William Ruto, Supreme Court Vice President Philemena Mwilu and Eugene Wamalwa.
Ogolla’s education has largely been sponsored by well-wisher who took him into his children’s home after his father died.
