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Once a giant, manufacturing now trails financial sector in Kenya GDP share
The Nyayo Pioneer 1, a car that was manufactured in Kenya in a project initiated in 1986 by retired late President Daniel Moi at the Numerical Machining Complex (NMC) workshop in Nairobi on March 2, 2021.
In the 1980s, manufacturing in Kenya was such a big deal that the government of Daniel arap Moi dared to join the league of automakers by commissioning the building of its own vehicle.
The plan flopped because the contraption that was the Nyayo Pioneer Car could barely move for a kilometre, but the car-making dream showed the zeal the Moi administration had for local manufacturing.
