“I sold my Germany-Made car to start Gas Cylinder making company” Raila Odinga says
Former Prime Minister and ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga has revealed he sold a German car he once owned to raise Ksh 12,000, which he used to start the East Africa Spectre, the only private company in Kenya that supplies gas cylinder to oil companies.
“I was teaching at the University of Nairobi when an Indian friend who was a technician told me that one of his friends had just been sent away from Uganda and had uprooted all his machines from Jinja to a yard at Parklands and was selling them before quickly travelling to Great Britain.”Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga started his narration
“The entire machinery was being sold at KSH 12,000, which I didn’t have. My salary was Ksh 2,000, so I sold my car to raise the cash and that is how I started”, he said.
“Having worked in a Cylinder manufacturing firm in Germany, I had an idea. I took samples from Agip, retooled and started manufacturing the gas cylinders,”he divulged.
