AMBITION: From watchman to law student

Ambition is priceless. Ambition nags a man out of the bed and makes him chart his path.

Such is the story of one Peterson Moturi.  Moturi is a watchman at night, and a law-student by day. How he keeps awake in class though, is a subject for another day.

Troubled education

Even before the he came to Nairobi in 2014, Moturi endured a rough past. He had to repeat form four after he failed to raise money to proceed with post-secondary education.

The 28 year-old has been juggling work and studies for three years.

He came to Nairobi in 2014 after scoring a C plain in his second shot at KCSE.

Took up odd jobs

“I did odd jobs like washing cars and mali-mali and managed to raise the first Sh50,000 that I paid at the Kenya School of Law. I had to defer for a whole year as I was unable to raise more money until the then director at the school of law PLO Lumumba gave me a scholarship for my second year and recently my balance was cleared by Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris through another scholarship,” says Moturi.

Juggling two activities

His modest income as a watchman enables him to pay for a single room house in Pipeline Estate, on Mombasa Road, and also buy food and transport charges while still supporting his younger siblings back at home in Nyamira County.

Hopes of a better job

“After completing my diploma in March this year, I hope to get a better earning job that will enable me to afford fees for my law degree. I am also appealing to anyone out there who can give me a scholarship to assist as I am determined to enrol and finish a law degree then proceed to sit for bar examinations,”

 

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