Career
Before Munyakei was offered employment at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) he had also been accepted as a cadet in the Army. He was planning to join the army when he received the CBK offer. He accepted the CBK offer which was prestigious and difficult to come by and joined CBK in 1991.
Munyakei would later narrate that he was qualified and followed the proper procedure to get the CBK job which also included opportunities for further studies.
He intimated that he went to CBK instead of college since after three years he would be given a scholarship to university within the banking provisions for training. As a result of his whistle-blowing actions, Munyakei was fired from his position at the Central Bank of Kenya, and spent the next decade of his life poor and largely unemployed.
His story has been serialized in a book The True Story of David Munyakei ().