Poor cobblers booted out of Sh300 billion State plan

Janet Nyaboke, shoe repairer and shiner doing her work at Nyamudi Market in Nyamira County. She is among few women who have broken the gender-specific job phenomenon which is common in the area. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

A story is told of a university don who was once invited to an evening ball by his elite friends in one of the city’s upmarket suburbs.

The don decided to tag along with a friend who was a cobbler for an evening of merriment.