Retrenchment was a blessing in disguise

Elias Otieno ferries his clients. [photo: Amimo Zacchaues/standard]

After finding himself among employees who had just been laid off, Elias Otieno hopped onto the next bus out of Nairobi destined for his home town of Oyugis.

For the seven years he’d lived in the capital city, Elias had been working as a casual labourer in a supermarket godown. He was to lose this opportunity after the firm elected to dismiss ‘incompetent’ employees.