1)He is one of the wealthiest Kenyans
S.K Macharia is one of the wealthiest Kenyans. The exact value of his net worth is unclear but, he was in 2012 named by Forbes magazine as one of Africa’s 10 millionaires to watch.
2)Once lived as a street scavenger
After his mother passed on in Kenya, the family; Macharia, his sisters and his father moved to Arusha. While there he kept the company of young Maasai herdsmen. He was with them in the bushes when the colonial government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya and extended the crackdown on Mau Mau dissidents into Tanzania. They decided to forcefully repatriate the Kenyans in Tanzania back to their country. This was 1952. When he got back to their house in Arusha, he found it burnt to the ground and his family rounded up and gone. He stayed with young Maasai herders who roamed about for two years when he realised that they had roamed to a place near Thika. He stayed behind, and for months, moved around, scavenging for food left overs in the market as he traced his way back to his real home, Ndakaini.
3) his 1st company was a tissue making company called. It was started in 1976 and was the only tissue manufacturing company in kenya
4) his company Royal media services was closed down by the government in the yard 2000
5)he is close to the odingas family
6) his 1st salary was 8000 ksh
7) he's a trained p1 teacher
