MOI’S DREAM CAR: Nyayo pioneer project allegedly fell apart on interference from late Biwott

[@briankanja]

to some extent he is right.A car is mostly enough to tell the level of industrial development a country has.

[@gefftech5673]

That was in 1990. Imagine if we kept this up, the kind of vehicles we could have been producing now.......It was a start. The wright brothers also started terribly

[@rumpelstiltskn5574]

...bana! We had such potential back then!

[@dancanwafula1929]

I support u. We could be at par with Japan and German

[@martinmwenda3551]

@@dancanwafula1929 Japan definitely,German I highly doubt talk about government interference and greedy egocentric politicians who would have wanted to be involved in the project despite not having any knowledge or experience of how the industry works whatsoever

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

@@martinmwenda3551 Lol. No. Japan was the second largest economy at the time and had over 100 years of industrialization... You think we could compete with that?

[@richardrichu7644]

the wright were high school drop out bycicle mechanics there fore practical and as the engeenier at the video said the nyayo was spear headed by university students and lecturers so they couldnt do a good job since university is theoritical rather than practical. same happened in the to built a heavier than air machine(air plane) in the us of a, a prominent professor of aero dynamics was heavily funded by the goverment to produce the same but he failed then semi irriterate bycicle mechanics came up with one a few years later using their own money.

[@Wabere]

Siasa baya, maisha baya. Tungekuwa mbali sana

[@dancanwafula1929]

I believe we can support our own..

[@dantramgb8953]

Mzee, the visionary.

[@georgewamalwa3735]

That was a great beginning

[@rofinkitali3765]

To start with, choosing the university to do the work was wrong. Moi should have started a company that will do the work on research and eventually production. The likes of Ford, Fiat, VW, Morris... Secondly, there wa no need to re-invent the wheel. Kenya should have started by mixing imported parts and locally produced ones that were available e.g Firestone tyres, batteries, sheet metal, pipes, paints.....

[@AdamWestish]

Can u use the experience & knowledge to make something everyone locally needs? Small electrics or some other vehicle or power system?

[@Fred-O86]

We made the best museum pieces. None ever functioned as a car. We should have learned from our mistakes and improve, we could have been very far now in automotive industry.

[@engkyalo9901]

I we had continued with the project we would be now having the best in africa

[@brendanaudi1919]

We moved from making this type of car to "Laikipia BJ 50". Somebody make it make sense for me. It's a real shame.

[@theturkanabus3610]

Kenya has declined in quality. Look at the public buildings (schools, churches etc) built in the 60s - 80s and those built in the last 20 years ujionee.

[@shikanyota]

What does the civil engineering dept have to do with constructing a car. Unambia ia watu wa kujenga madaraja ati wajenge gari.jee huu ni ungwana

[@BoniOdinga-m5g]

Key things: machining, efficiency, education( we assume you can't be learned without education, Jua kali artisans are learned vs the educated) and top most: CORRUPTION. Total man wanted to eat a cow that had not even been conceived or at zygote stage. Props Engineer Onyango, at first I thought he was stupid...then I realised that he's a smart Kenyan...speaks in code and maintains political correctness that ensured he lived to tell the tale and did not join Dr Ouko. If we're not industrialised we can't do machining. Machining means exact/replaceable spare parts. A car is all about SPARE PARTS. That's why Mobius is doing a car in parts (all tendered out to diff countries)

[@engkyalo9901]

The mechanical or civil engineering department

[@richardrichu7644]

why, because of Prof Gichaga? i think he headed the engeenering department.

[@daniells71]

The potential number of jobs that would have been created would have been off the charts!!

[@fastnetcyber9579]

civil engineering smh siku hizo walikua wanajenga gari....maye thats why it failed

[@dancanwafula1929]

Kenyans! What are we really trying to do in order to ensure that we are not dependent on developed countries in terms of importing manufactured cars? Cant we do our own car?

[@josephkanyugi3799]

It is only Moi who had the vision and he died with it. He gave up on Kenyans when he said that "Hamjakomaa Kimawazo na Kisiasa".

[@patrickmaingi703]

Citizen nyinyi ni waongo ATI civil engineering to make a car

[@alom1807]

Why did you keep cutting back to the black and white clip of making a mkokoteni? This story is poorly done. No curve, no narrative.

[@BoniOdinga-m5g]

The guy has tried it shows u there's no footage from that time to cover up the narration...What ur doing is what has killed Kenya; assuming that u know what went on in the production. Hujui ati hujui...u shd ask, ditto Kenyans/Africans

[@alom1807]

@@BoniOdinga-m5g Don't be scared to call out mediocrity in 2021

[@andrewkabena9325]

This car was nothing more than a political tool meant to make a statement. But the approach to how it was fabricated and manufactured was flawed. It was bound to fail from the start.

[@thuraku]

This had to be the most ridiculous project of all time! We used to laugh at it, still do.

[@CaptainFlizzyGrand]

Nicholas Biwot, the man who killed a dream😒

[@briancheruiyot9011]

biwott killed this dream he wanted to be a consultant in everything yet he was an economist by training.. wen not consulted he closed it one day

[@Dj_1MAA]

Ruto come see this. Mjengo is fine but look at the vision your predecessors had

[@cnchristopher257]

I think the name of the car contributed significantly to its failure.. Even if it's Kenyan made honestly how many people would buy a car called nyayo 😂

[@samuelhaguru9455]

It should be revived by the incoming government of William Ruto

[@xcross8537]

You can’t wake up in the middle of the night and decided to build a car from scratch 😆

[@dancanwafula1929]

You are not patriotic zombie! This was then, imagine if the projet would have been supported by Kenyan, now we could be manufacturing our own and of course there could be a big difference and also we could have achieved excellent and competent builders

[@theturkanabus3610]

They did! So there goes your comment

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

@@theturkanabus3610 Exactly