Meet The Kenyan Street Boy Who Rose To Fight For US Army In Iraq And Afghanistan (Photo)

It is very rare to come by a foreigner joining one of the most lethal armies in the world to fight terrorists and their activities and specifically in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

But for Gregory Mutua, his story is an inspiring one.

Having grown up as a street ragamuffin, Mutua owes so much to the late Karisa Maitha, a man who was appointed Minister for Local Government in 2003 when Kibaki took over from Moi.

It was under Maitha that a programme to rehabilitate all street children in Nairobi was launched. And Mutua was among those who were enrolled at the NYS to be rehabilitate and trained to have some skills. And so he was taken to Gilgil where he trained in paramilitary operations.

After there they were deployed to do manure jobs and his was a bulldozer operator in Nairobi. It was here that someone informed Mutua that there was an agent looking for people with NYS skills to be shipped to Iraq to join the US Military. Mutua applied and was among the lucky once who were flown to Iraq.

Gregory Mutua in a military base in Iraq

It was here while he worked as a security guard in a US Military base that he learnt several skills among them weaponry, basic first aid, Radio Procedure Reporting, the Rules of the Use of Force, Health and Safety and Law of Armed Conflict. He even has a certificate for the same.

Mutua could later go to Afghanistan where he learnt many more things and assisted the US Military as they fought militants. Later he went to Dubai.

Today, Mutua is a proud owner of rental houses in Dandora and has his own house where he lives with his wife and young daughter.

This is inspiration.

Source: Daily Nation