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Narok Governor Patrick ole Ntutu. [File, Standard]

When a group of tourists from Chicago, United States of America arrived in a remote village in Narok county in 1993, Patrick Ole Ntutu, now the governor, was at the lowest point of his life.

Fresh from sitting his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (KCSE) in 1991, the young Ntutu hoped to be among a few of his Maasai community to join college.

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