Multi-million dream borne of Sh5,000-a-month chama

Samuel Njenga,Managing Director of ITrade during the interview at his offices in Nairobi [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

Samuel Njenga graduated as a computer scientist at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in 2003. Like his peers, the degree was supposed to secure him a well-paying job.

Luckily, it did. Njenga was in the public sector for nine years before restlessness set in. He wanted more out of life. So, with four like-minded friends from college, they began saving Sh5,000 a month. This they did for five years before they decided to invest the savings in stocks.