How serial trader overcame failure to build empire from grains of rice

When Charles Njiru started working in the 1980s, every month he just had Sh300 to his name; money that he earned as a tailor.

More than three decades later, Mr Njiru, has become a multi-millionaire with the first-ever rice wagons worth Sh13.2 million that distribute about three tonnes of grain from his milling factory to various counties every day.