A CEO Minus Higher Learning ! Legrane Limited CEO's Story
Meet Elias Thuku, a Chief Executive Officer minus higher learning who only graduated from milking cows and irrigating farms.
Otieno Cynthia 
Elias Thuku spent his childhood in Muramati, a village in Laikipia County. That is where he went to school and in the year 1988, he joined Form One in Muramati secondary school.
While at form two, the CEO was expelled from the school following a strike in school and was unable to join another school as he was denied the transfer letter.
"I had to stay home for a whole year, not sure what to do next,” Elias told a local media station.
After one year's stay at home, Elias was advised by his mother to vacate for his grandmother's place in Nyahururuwhere nobody and no school knew him. It's at Nyahururu that he again joined class 8.
“That was in 1990, and when I went to this new school at Oljabet, I found that Class 8 was already registered and I had no option but to go back to Class 7. Note that I had moved from Form Two to Class 7," explained Thuku.
After class eight, he was admitted to Ndururumo High School.
"After my O level, I did not secure a grade to join university and my parents had the rest of my siblings to pay for school fees, leaving me with no college option but to seek a manual job. I went to an aunty in Nyandarua and I was helping in milking and taking milk to the dairy,” explained Thuku.
Elias recalled that his cousin, who worked in a horticulture exporting farm, came home from Nairobi one day. He needed to help his friend secure a job in Timau.
"We were both sent to meet a mzungu with a note written, ‘kindly assist this young man get a manual job.’ The note was referring to the other guy, not me," expounded the Legrane Limited CEO.
“Fortunately, the mzungu asked if both of us were looking for jobs and I was quick to say yes. We reported the next day and were told to do irrigation for the night shift,” noted Thuku.
He narrates that one night while working, the European boss came with some instructions.
The man the white man was addressing did not understand so Elias came to interpret what he meant. When the mzungu noticed that a man understood English, he was impressed, and the new employee was promoted to storeman in charge of irrigating materials.
It was then that his boss trained him how to use the computer. “I did that job faithfully for two years at a salary of 69 shillings per day," recounted the successful CEO.
