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Step aside, engineer: There are no jobs for you

JKUAT Nakuru engineering students protest over lack of lectures. [File, Standard]

In the busy streets of Nairobi, melting in and out of the daily, maddening racket in search of livelihoods, are hundreds, maybe thousands, of frustrated, disenchanted engineers, a good number of who have decided they will never practice, either out of lack of opportunity or plain dissatisfaction with the returns in the field.

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