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Meet Brian Mbeche, engineering student by day, watchman by night

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Brian Mbeche at his workstation in Kisumu. [Michael Mute, Standard]

It is a few minutes to 6pm and Brian Mbeche is rushing to the Rotary Club in Kisumu to report for his night shift as a watchman.

A few minutes earlier, Mbeche was busy in a laboratory at the Kisumu National Polytechnic studying the parts of a mechanical machine with other students.

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