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I ditched banking job to start my own lending business

Peter Macharia,CEO and Founder of Jijenge Credit Limited at the Standard's I&M offices in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

In an employment-seeking economy like Kenya’s, the plan is often to get a job and retire at 60. But at the altar of employment, ambition is sacrificed.

Peter Macharia recognised this a few years into employment. “As I worked, the ambitions I had nagged me even more,” he says.

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