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Kenya has three badembly plants for vehicles. They are by far the largest, the oldest and the most experienced in the region. And despite sometimes very unfavorable economic and political conditions – and less than the generous help of source manufacturers – they have a strong track record in both the domestic market and exports.
They have made the most of the little benefit that they can muster and deliver competitive products in terms of cost and quality. If they did not do it, they would not exist.
They already have the capacity to double the number of vehicles they build and, without major investments or restructurings, they could triple their production. Their current production levels are not depressed because of all that these facilities can not do technically, physically or logistically. Their numbers are limited by market conditions and local policies.
There is no doubt that our existing plants are better placed than anyone in these areas to offer the potential benefits. In other words, if they can not do it in the current circumstances, nobody else can do it. Surely, every local car company and every global manufacturer knows it.
So, what do we have to do in the past decade in order for a certain brand (big and small) to establish its own factory? here in Kenya or elsewhere to bademble locally its vehicles for this regional market? Why would anyone make an investment so expensive, so long and so uncertain to create from scratch that the ability to build what he wants is already there, ready, wanted, able and proven?
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