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The Sh5m-a-month deal that got away

Engineer Bolton Majale and his partner Helson Ongeso at their workshop in Norwich Tower in Nairobi on 02/11/2020. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, they would show up at a mobile phone repair shop in town every morning without fail. They were there to learn the craft. As apprentices. And learn they did. With big dreams and slightly hazy visions, Helson Ongeso and Bolton Majale hoped they would make it in the...