Young innovator excels in making security systems

An Italian investor supervises his workers as they fence off land. Elijah Kupata says the National Council of Science and Technology funded his security innovations. Photo/File

When Elijah Kupata enrolled at Mount Kenya University for an engineering programme, his sole aim was to fulfil his childhood dream of making security gadgets to curb crime, in his home village, which had given his parents sleepless nights for years.

After graduating from the university in 2006, Kupata promised himself that the next move would be to explore the world of innovations and come up with a device that would fulfil his childhood dream.

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