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Scientist’s software halves industrial production cost

Scientist’s software halves industrial production cost
Dr Moses Makayoto whose insecticide fights filth flies in refugee camps. [Photo: Dann Okoth/Standard]

A Kenyan scientist’s ingenious innovative skills are saving companies billions of shillings in industrial process costs and impacting millions of lives worldwide through affordable products.

Dr Moses Makayoto, the chief research scientist and head of Kenya Industrial and Research Development Institute (Kirdi) Enterprise is a well known scientist locally and abroad.

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