<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi Listers,</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">At the beginning of the year and visited Gikomba to see if I could get a basket ball backboard fabricated and task that was executed within an hour.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Apart from the efficiency and flexibility with which is was done my experience re-affirms by believe that the Vision 2030 and no more a shelf document than the Sessional Paper number 3 I believe of 1968
was.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">I ask Mr. Kibati and his team to visit Gikomba and also Grogan (where a car is reconditioned in 8 hours flat), spend at least 2 hours after which you will be in a position to give sight to Vision 2030.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font size="3">Gikomba and Grogan epitomise what the vision was of the Kenya Industrial Estates workshops in Industrial Areas where supposed to be and also the later Nyayo Jua Kali Sheds but with the missing </font>ingredient, the peculiar Kenyan.<font size="3"> </font></div><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <br><div
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<div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;" class="yui_3_2_0_153_1326096544783110"><img width="482" height="361" id="yiv1625303985_x0000_i1025" src="cid:1.2237875624@web27804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;" class="yui_3_2_0_153_1326096544783110"><br></span></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span class="yui_3_2_0_153_1326096544783110"><font size="2">This is a picture of the average stalls in Gikomba, I visited 3 speciality workshops before the backboard was finally completed, each stall measures no more than 3 x 5 meters. The
picture above is of a stall with a wood planner, circular saw and router. Each of the stalls usually accommodates a number of independent contractors with the usual broker offering the logistics and coordination function</font></span></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;" class="yui_3_2_0_153_1326096544783110"><br></span></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><img width="477" height="358" id="yiv1625303985_x0000_i1027" src="cid:2.2237875624@web27804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com"></span></font></div>
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<div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">As the demand for space increases the stalls have now been extended to two levels and a few new constructions have risen to 3 and 4 storeys. </font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">The two locations apply all the rules of Just I Time and as an engineer you will appreciate the clustering of various activities in the form of a conveyor belt system.</font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">To me what I visualised was the Airbus manufacturing model where components are assembled in disparate locations.</font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">Let
as be weary of picking a foreign model on industrialisation without localising it and taking into account the fact that Kenya is a different country and 2013 is not 1967 so the Asian Tiger models or the MIT models will fail here, we must incorporate our local peculiarities if we are to succeed.</font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div class="yiv1625303985MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards</font></div></div></div></div><br> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>