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Sameer Africa Chairman Eng. Erastus Mwongera (left) and Managing Director Allan Walmsley peruse through the group’s 2015 annual report. [Photo: Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard]
Workers at Sameer Africa have started dismantling the Nairobi tyre manufacturing factory ahead of its relocation to India. The plant has been idle for months following a decision made last year to stop making tyres at the Mombasa Road-based plant.
Already hundreds of employees have been sacked and the management is blaming cheap imports for the closure.
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