President Uhuru Kenyatta’s top lawyer Ken Ogetto has his mother to thank for fighting hard to see him through school else, he says, he would be a matatu driver.
Ogetto is poised to take over as the Solicitor-General in the next few days, a position previously held by Njee Muturi.
During grilling by the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee led by William Cheptumo, Ogetto told the panel that he had a passion to become a matatu driver.
Ogetto who has been in private practice for the last 27 years said according to Nairobi News: “There was a time I wanted to abandon school but my lovely mother Teresa Nyaboke, advised me against the move. She loved education and wanted her children to get the best.”
He says that after he was admitted to Gekano Secondary School in 1978, he developed a negative attitude to education despite his mother’s pressure for his to be learned.
And despite his mother being a teacher, he dropped out of school for one year-in 1979.
“I wanted to be a matatu driver because I admired them but whenever I told my mother, she would not listen to me and never gave up. I would run away from school but she would bring me back. The fact that she never caned me gave me time to reflect.”
He later got transferred to a local school within his locality where he scroed Division one, today’s equivalent of A.
He proceeded for his A-level at Thika High and later joined the University of Nairobi Law School where he graduated with a Law degree in 1989. He obtained a Masters Degree from the same institution in 2022.
He is the managing partner of Ogetto, Otachi and company advocates. He also sits the Kenya Ports Authority and Ecobank boards.