Nyayo Motors Corporation: The lost dream

The launch of the Nyayo Pioneer in 1990 marked Kenya’s first attempt at a locally manufactured vehicle. At the time, the country was upbeat. A few months earlier, KEMRI had announced findings that Kemron, a cancer drug, had been found effective against the Aids virus. The then President, Moi, was very keen to see the country develop its own auto industry.

On that day, even journalists displayed a modicum of patriotism. There were three vehicles in the Kasarani stadium. The president drove the first and the second one round the field, but when it came to the third one, which was a pick up, it failed to start. No journalist mentioned this embarrassment on the papers the next day. Anyway, it was a good attempt at the time. As a huge car enthusiast then, I ran away from school and walked many kilometers on foot to witness the event. Seven years earlier, I had witnessed the President challenge the University of Nairobi to make a car of any sort. In high school, I enrolled in a vehicle mechanics course in the hope of joining this team one day. Many years later, this looks like a wasted dream.

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The man had Maono

Him and the guy who tries to make a plane in muranga fall into the same lot. Cars/planes were invented many decades ago. Why would you try re-inventing the wheel? Si wachunguze a way of bottling biogas into cylinders.

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Hapo hakuna maono. He was wasting money on useless projects while at the same time thoroughly dryfrying the economy.

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Which high school offer vehicle mechanics.Mangu, maseno, kakamega, Khamisi, ch ogoria, Kisii, musingu, etc

You cannot connect the dots looking forward, only looking backwards-steve jobs

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Anything with the name nyayo on it was an avenue to corruption.
There was no accountability as everyone had a Godfather who also had his hand deep in the pie.
We had nyayo bus, nyayo tea zones, nyayo wards, maziwa ya nyayo (which by the way naskia inarudi don’t know kaa itaitwa ya uhuru or chupilee).
It’s was every man for himself their motto being what can your country do for you

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Inaitwa Brookeside. Just another avenue for marketing UK’s products.

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Nop, that was Numerical Machines we did the Best …Problem was politics

Same thing happening now, we sit in seminars and workshops all day long for weeks talking of grand schemes of what needs to be done but when it comes to implementation politics kicks in and all the dreams grind to a halt. Only one person is smiling at this stage, the consultant, alikula mbesha kitambo sana na ata ashasahau hio project and is busy on another one.
Tunamuona yule wa youth fund alichew 180m.

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I heard hiyo body ilikuwa ngumu only a hydraulic hammer would dent it.

You were lied to.

Then they say kenya is about to take off, nkt

The electorate ndio wanashida

[QUOTsaMeria Mata, post: 374407, member: 139"]Same thing happening now, we sit in seminars and workshops all day long for weeks talking of grand schemes of what needs to be done but when it comes to implementation politics kicks in and all the dreams grind to a halt. Only one person is smiling at this stage, the consultant, alikula mbesha kitambo sana na ata ashasahau hio project and is busy on another one.
Tunamuona yule wa youth fund alichew 180m.
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Very sad , hope one day things will change. .and all those research papers will become reality

There is Numerical Machines which is trying to revive such projects…

What did you expect from a school teacher :smiley:

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Thats why I decided to never attend those forums I am invited to, natuma watu kurepresent. Its all talk, free food and no execution after

Hehehehe, got one coming up next week.

Going there for the content, food or networking?