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My first ride to Nairobi was on the OTC bus from Subaland in Homa Bay.
To be honest, when I left my village for the city, I had no idea where I was going in Nairobi. I took the bus because I wanted to meet my uncle who was living in Nairobi at the time.
That's what brought me to this city because I really wanted to see Nairobi. My visit only lasted a week and it was soon time to return to the village. I returned home a happy young man. It was a great achievement.
When you are born and raised in a village, you yearn to live in the city.
It didn't have the same dignity as it did when your classmates, villagers, and friends of your age were visiting Nairobi when you were still ignorant about the capital, Bwana.
So I said to myself, “If my father won't let me, I'll sneak into town.'' And that's exactly what I did after high school.
I left the village with a friend who, unlike me, had been to Nairobi before.
The city was wonderful. On what is now Moi Street, then known as Government Road, there were spectacular buildings with shining glass windows and shining roofs.
However, my arrival in Nairobi was not so smooth as at the time students of the University of Nairobi were rioting and fighting with the police on the streets. I was completely confused by the mess. At that point, I vowed to myself that one day I would go to college and try out for law enforcement just like the students, which I eventually did.
Gerald Otieno Kaziwan is a Kenyan politician and current senator for Homa Bay County.
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