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Boda bodas inspired our business

After graduation from Kenyatta University, the two friends would spend the next five years hitting the pavements looking for work. CVs in hand and wearing the only official clothes they had, they did it tirelessly.

But at some point Robert Mwalugha and Kennedy Okiya realized that they needed a better plan if they were to survive in the city. It was a long journey to where they are today as co-founders of Pick-Up Mtaani, a delivery service company.

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