Duo earns big from concrete products after winning contract

The two have won a Sh2 million contract to supply culverts and fencing poles to the Chinese company working on the multi-billion standard gauge railway project which is crossing through Voi town.[PHOTOS: PASCAL MWANDAMBO/STANDARD]

Nairobi; Kenya: When two Voi businessmen Nelson Namwendwa and Elias Mdawida came together to register a company called Wima Concrete Products in 2010, their original plans and ambitions were a pale shadow of what they are doing now.

The businessmen had mulled over the production of culverts to supply Government and private contractors in the county, after realising that there were very few, if any, business people who had ventured into this kind of business. This was despite the fact that road construction and repair were growing steadily.