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Putting food on the table has become an uphill task for many Kenyans. But being the entrepreneurial lot that they are, Kenyans, perhaps inspired by the adage “man must not only live but live abundantly”, stop at nothing to make ends meet. Unemployment has pushed many into creative manoeuvres and unorthodox out-of-the-box tactics to earn an extra coin. Forget the crooks who engage in illegal enterprises such as pickpocketing, ngeta (choke-hold) artists who rob people along dark alleys at knife or gunpoint and con artists. There are some strange jobs Kenyan do to feed their families that would shock you.
1. Matatu fillers
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