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This Tycoon was Almost Killed by Snake and Cockerel While Young

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Optiven Group CEO George Wachiuri’s life is a story of being born in poverty but overpowering it to become one of Kenya’s notable real estate investor.

The Nyeri-born millionaire who is now in his 40s escaped death by whisker while young. Two fates befell him. He was first attacked by a snake and later a cockerel.

Wachiuri says he was about to sweep their house at Laburra village, Nyeri when puff adder attacked him but he was rushed to Nyeri District Hospital (Now Nyeri Provincial Hospital) quickly. Were it not for the prompt response he says he would have succumbed to the bite. He spent three weeks in hospital bed.

“I heard hissing sound of puff adder but I couldn’t locate where it emanated from. I didn’t have time to escape. The searing bite was like a needle forced through my skin” he recalls in his book “Soaring High Like An Eagle”.

George Wachiuri.

Months later he was back in this hospital after a jogoo nearly gouged out his eyes. He was cleaning dishes outside their house when he shoved away a chicken bothering him but the cockerel he says “Couldn’t understand why I had to touch his girl”.

He remembers; “Without a warning, he (jogoo) dashed from where he was and went for my face. I was only lucky that it was my side of the face left open to him; that fellow would have gouged my eyes”. It was slaughtered two days later after he was discharged from hospital.

Wachiuri and his siblings lost their father in 1978 and with their widowed mother they struggled to live. At one time he aspired to become a priest. While a teenager he sold onions for living and washed clothes at a fee for his fellow students at University of Nairobi.

Wachiuri’s High School days.

The tycoon lost his mother in September last year after a long illness.

He established Optiven, his real estate company in 1997 but it took him 10 years to make profit.

In 2014/15 edition of Top 100 mid-sized companies Optiven was ranked top and also the best real estate company in the mid-sized category.

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