Why factories have fled from once vibrant industrial Nakuru town

The building that used to house Sam-Con Limited company, a vehicle body fabrication manufacturing company in Industrial Area, Nakuru town. The company closed shop in Nakuru in the year 2000 [Harun Wathari, Standard]

John Mwendwa, 76, was born and raised in Nakuru town. He remembers with nostalgia the days he used to work at the Eliotts Bakeries.

Now frail, Mwendwa recalls the good old days when trucks delivering raw materials to manufacturing plants in Nakuru town’s Industrial Area would zoom past him as he walked to the factory where he worked for almost a decade.