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A team of engineers and experts from the University of Nairobi produced five Kenyan-made vehicles in 1990

President Daniel arap Moi inspects a Nyayo car that was meant to be the first Kenyan manufactured vehicle.

By WAWERU MUGO

NAIROBI, KENYA: The story is told of how former President Moi in the 1980s asked the University of Nairobi to come up with a car “however ugly or slow it may be”. And sure, the engineers went to work and the car finally rolled off the production lines few years later.

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