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Investors, make history in Kenya with electric buses

Recently, I was on a two-week working trip to Tokyo, Japan. The highly developed Asian nation was my first foreign country to visit in 1991. Ever since I have interacted with the Japanese for umpteenth times and appreciated their unmatched level of commitment to duty, efficiency in doing things and the value they attach to both.

I have since concluded that there are only two types of people in the world, the Japanese and everyone else! (subject for another day). My recent visit was, however, a bittersweet experience. Every time I boarded Tokyo’s electric trains that are a lot cheaper and faster, I was reminded of the clog in Nairobi’s transport artery. 

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