In his heyday, at the pinnacle of the financial world as the CEO of the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA), Dr Habil Olaka did not suffer fools. He was a busy man, with a meeting there, a crisis here, a fire to put out kindling somewhere else, and thus would easily brush off someone he saw as “slow”.
For a man who’s talked repeatedly about seizing the opportunity in front of him, about ambition, about understanding the hourglass is short on sand, this was the way. Admittedly, he tells the BDLife, is not the only way.
