I left ESS in 1966 to do my 'A' levels at Highway Secondary School. In 1969, I went to Kenya Polytechnic. In 1971 I went to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Nairobi University from where I graduated in 1975.

I worked for the Kenya government in different institutions – District Officer for Hola and Research Officer at the Wellcome Institute for Research on Foot and Mouth disease. I did my M.Sc. in tropical Vet Medicine at Edinburghh in 1978/79. I was with Sercombe Vet Surgeons and since 1981 with my own Cocker Vet Clinics along Rosslyn Lane Tree Estate.

I am married to Bernice Banzhaf and we have three children – Shaila, Talal and Zaratz – all now in the U.S.A.

- As of October 2006