Kenya gov't to buy only locally-assembled vehicles to boost production

Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-20 00:24:30|Editor: yan
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NAIROBI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan government will only buy locally-assembled vehicles for official administration use in order to promote home-grown manufacturing, an official said on Wednesday.

Peter Munya, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives, said it's now a government procedure for all ministries and other state agencies to buy locally- assembled cars to help create jobs for the locals and boost production.

"The directive must be adhered to as an assertion to supporting the local initiative and any state officer who violates the order shall have disciplinary action meted upon them," Munya said during the commissioning of new assembly lines at Isuzu East Africa assembly plant that was constructed at a cost of 1 billion shillings (10 million U.S. dollars).

He said all government agencies are thus required to give exclusive preference in procurement of motor vehicles for government use to firms that have assembly plants in Kenya as a way of spurring growth of local support enterprises and creating employment opportunities for the youth.

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