Hustle Gang: How horror road crash that nearly killed me bred my success

Walter Wanjiru.

On November 23, 1995, Walter Wanjiru then a lorry tout aged 20 years, was in a horrific road accident. Out of the nine in that fateful ride, he was the only one who survived. He now says that the accident served as a wakeup call to make a better life for himself. He narrates his story:

I was optimistic that it would be another normal day as a loader for my uncle’s lorry that supplied building materials in Nairobi. I would earn Sh500 as daily allowance and be paid a monthly salary of Sh12,000. So full of life was I that I had charted my finance growth path into the future where, with disciplined savings, I was sure I would end up in transport business, owning of a fleet of lorries.