How a young man who faked death after 7 bullet-shots to escape terrorists' savagery recently met Good Samaritan amid hopelessness

From Left: Emmanuel Omala, father (Paul Omala), Class Teacher, OKash Ag Director Peter Kaiga, OKash staff.

In this life, there may come a time when very challenging circumstances might knock in and overwhelm you making you feel like nature is punishing you for no apparent reason.

But as an old adage says, "where there is will there is way", you should never allow those bad circumstances to pull you down an inch as they could be a guised stepping stone to your appointment with destiny.

Emmanuel Omala, a 21-year-old DusitD2 terror attack survivor, and whose grass to grace story we recounted to you here last week, can affirm to the above statement being a living testimony who has literally met with death eye-to-eye.

But as they say, that is now all swept under the carpet as on February 9, 2020, Omala having bypassed all the stumbling blocks along his way, reported to Form One at St Paul's Amukura High School in Teso South.

This was after OKash Foundation, a CSR initiative by OKash digital lender, paid his school fees which he had been unable to raise prompting him to embark on a hopeless search for a Good Samaritan.

"I am very happy and grateful that OKash has come to my aid and volunteered to pay for my school fees when all my hopes to continue with high school education were almost dashed," Omala is quoted as saying in a news story aired on Saturday by Citizen TV, NTV and TV47.

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But how did Emmanuel's lucky star come to shine on him? Well, according to OKash Ag Director, Peter Kaiga, Emmanuel's needy case came to their attention as the digital lender was going about its ongoing recruitment drive for OKash Mashinani Agents in Busia.

"Once our representatives that we had dispatched there came back to Nairobi and told us about Emmanuel's case that had been reported on the media too, we decided that our OKash Mashinani initiative in that area will kickstart by giving back to the host community," Kaiga told 254 NewsDay via a phone interview on Saturday.

OKash Mashinani is an agency lending method developed by OKash and is designed to reach out to Kenyans at their convenient places including people without smart phones and knowledge on how to use the OKash App.