Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has told an audience of Solomon Islander youth how he rose from the ranks of toilet cleaner to Prime Minister, and implored them to “never give up”.
In an off-the-cuff speech at the three-day UN Youth Innovation Summit in Honiara this morning, the Prime Minster spoke about his idol, Winston Churchill, and told the audience a story about how one of his teachers told him he would be a “Mr Nobody”.
Mr Sogavare dropped out of school and got his first job cleaning toilets and making tea for the British colonial masters at the Solomon Islands Department of Inland Revenue in the 1970s.
