Your attitude to money can make you rich or poor

Hezron Gakuya, a retired civil servant in Nyandarua County, likes to share his ‘heroic tale’ with anybody who cares to listen when he is in the right mood. This man pulled off a bizarre money antic in his youth and it has been the talk in his home area for decades.

Gakuya was awarded Sh100,000 in compensation by a court, painted a local town red and, when he wanted to go home, realised that the last matatu to his rural home had long gone. No problem. He stopped a 62-seater bus along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway and negotiated with the crew to take him home.