Industrial Attachment in kenya

It‘s the end of the semester. You
are just through with your exams
then you notice that you are to go
on external attachment just as per
the requirement of your course.
Simple as it may sound, it is really
hard to get an external attachment.
If it was another country I would
not have to post this but since this
is Kenya…
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An attachment is a program
organized by the school so that you
can implement what you have
learnt in school. There are two
types of attachos;
internal and external attachment.
Internal just as it implies is done
within the school and mostly
applies to engineering and
computer science students. An
external/industrial attachment is
whereby the student is attached to
a company which practices
something that is related to the
students’ course.
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This is Kenya. I hate reasoning this
way but the easiest way to get an
attachment in Kenya is when you
are known to someone who knows
someone who might be related to
someone’s someone so long as it’s
just not anyone or “no one”. It has
to be someone. I hope things might
change for the better or even the
best in the future but this is the
sad reality. You are lucky if your
father is the Resident Engineer of a
big project, your uncle is the
chairman of ERB, your mother if
director of the Institute of
Engineers of Kenya, your father is a
long time friend to The Director of
KeNHA, your mother once dated
The Director of KURA back in
campo (of course before she met
your father) and the mother to
your cousin’s grandfather was one
of the founders of the Civil
Engineering Department in The
University of Nairobi. If you are
not such a person, I’m sorry but
you have to tarmac. Other possible
means of getting it are rare
occurrences such as your dad’s
debtor, the MD of Gibbs
International, gives you an
attachment as a means of reducing
the debt. This is the sad reality;
Lazima Ujuane.
So if you want that great
opportunity to apply what you
learn in class in the field, swallow
your pride and call your ex, her
dad designed KICC . You may be
lucky.
That’s it, that’s how you get an
attachment in Kenya. Hope you will
change this stereotipism.
And the good thing is that you
don’t have to be an Engineer to
get this.
This article is a sarcastic way of
showing you how you will get an
attacho. No hard feelings on the
persons whose positions have
been mentioned above.