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Ambwere: The tycoon who offered to pay teachers

Business mogul Ibrahim Ambwere during an interview at his home. (Photo: Collins Oduor/Standard)

In the early 1980s, Ibrahim Ambwere stunned the nation by offering to pay teachers their delayed salaries amounting to Sh48 million.

He was concerned about teachers’ welfare. “That was a lot of money in the 80s, but I had it and I was willing to bail them out,” he says.

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