How Aim Global lures many with promise of millions

Bundles of cash. AIM Global's attraction is its promises to “turn ordinary people into extraordinary millionaires” in a matter of weeks and without much sweat. [Courtesy]

Every Monday and Tuesday from 8am, a group of eager and hopeful young people begins to trickle steadily into Room 101 of Stanbank House, the tall brown building adjacent to the National Archives on Nairobi’s Moi Avenue.

As they stream in with pens and notebooks, and scurry optimistically to the front seats, each one tells a different story. From the ambitious university students eager to make money to the high school leavers crying out for a better life, and the desperate unemployed graduates on the brink of losing hope amid disappointing job hunts.