6. Phelogena Awino – Security Guard
Sometimes the finish line isn’t a ribbon stretched across a road. It’s a small house in the village. And she’s been running towards it for most of her life. She was born into a sprawling polygamous family where scarcity was common. Her father didn’t work. Her mother brewed busaa to keep the family afloat. The police would regularly carry her away, leaving the children behind with […]
5. Hargreaves Onyango – Security Officer
He still remembers the Land Cruiser. Black. New. The windows were thick, probably bulletproof. He was twenty-four, working the main gate at a shopping mall in Nairobi, one hand holding the inspection mirror he used to search underneath vehicles, the other asking politely for permission to open the boot. Security protocol. Always ask first. The […]
4. Boniface Wekesa – Security Officer
The first place my father’s name should have appeared, it didn’t. On my birth certificate. My grandmother was never traditionally married to my grandfather. So, when my father was born, he carried the burden of that decision. In the family, there was always that whisper. That stain. That feeling that he didn’t entirely belong. My […]
3. Oliver Wanjala – Security Officer
What does a VIP look like? Who is a VIP anyway? Is it someone with bodyguards or someone who walks with a cane and sunglasses? When Oliver Wanjala was posted to the VIP parking gate of a 5-star hotel in Westlands during his first week, he did what any young security officer might have done. […]
2. Alfred Otieno Odondo – Security Officer
“I once got interviewed by a dog.” The client lived in a quiet Nairobi suburb and had a rather unusual recruitment policy. Before she trusted you with her home, her two dogs had to trust you first. If they didn’t like your vibe, there would be no second interview. This is because dogs don’t […]
1. Kishori Lal Sahni – Chairman, Founder
Memory is a treasure. Ask Kishori Lal Sahni. Ask him about what he remembers of 1953, when he joined the Kenya Police at only eighteen, wet behind the ears. When cops wore stiff khaki shorts, and socks up to their knees. He remembers chasing brigands, pistol in hand and working with the legendary Patrick Shaw. […]