SELINA ACTOR BRIAN OGOLA SPEAKS ABOUT BEING CONNED SH500,000 AND DROPPING OUT OF COLLEGE TO PURSUE ACTING

Actor Brian Ogola has opened up about how his family was conned Sh500,000 by a car dealer. Speaking with Buzz Central’s Cheptoek Boyo, the actor recalled paying for the car only to find out that the dealer had conned them and the car they had paid for was too old to be allowed into the country. 

“We wanted to buy a car as a family and my mum told me, ‘there’s this family friend who got my friend all their cars and he knows what he is doing so let’s just work with him’. So we met up and gave him half a million as a downpayment, we were given the invoice and told the car is in transit and will get it in a month. Four weeks later George was not calling us,” Ogola said.

“After the fifth week I found out that there was an online portal for me to track the car. So I got online and typed my invoice number. There was nothing, when I typed the chassis number it showed a car that is not even allowed into the country because it was too old. We went to ask his wife and she said she broke up with him and they are no longer together, eventually we had to accept we had been conned.” 

Ogolla also spoke on quitting college to pursue acting, “I had a lot of differences with my dad. My dad had this whole vision of how his sons would end up taking control of his company and making it come to it’s full vision but that didn’t happen. At our home, after finishing school one would be given time to think of what to do or pursue and during that time I was working  for my dad and I started taking part time business classes just to help my dad’s company.

I would go for auditions and once I started getting good results from auditions it was really encouraging and I was like, ‘I don’t feel happy at all doing academia itself’. I felt whatever I was doing in those business classes was not challenging me enough and other than that I had no idea what else I really wanted to do and later I came to realise that I’m just an artiste. I just didn’t want to go to work and be miserable, I prefer enjoying what I do and in the middle of an exam I quit college.”