Moses Kuria’s seeming ‘insanity’ is just a facade

In early 2006, I walked into the lobby of a bank I was setting up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and saw two Africans sitting at the reception. I immediately recognized them as Kenyans and I greeted them in Swahili. They were stunned. Dressed in my suit, they had not expected a Kenyan to set up a bank in Saudi Arabia.

I welcomed them into my office. The two gentlemen had come to lobby for a consultancy job. I asked the manager what happened to the contract and he replied in Arabic that I had signed it that morning to a Saudi company. I told him I had changed my mind and we were going to give it to the two Kenyans. The manager, speaking in Arabic said “they don’t have experience’’.