Kenya's Thriving Motodop Economy
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Kenya's Thriving Motodop Economy
Kenya's booming motorbike taxi industry lifts grassroots economies
Source: Xinhua| 2019-07-26 23:18:07|Editor: Mu Xuequan
by Bedah Mengo
NAIROBI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A thriving motorbike transport industry in Kenya has lifted economies of various rural and urban centers, with the machines imported mainly from China changing the fortunes of many.
Across rural Kenya, economies of most of the regions now revolve around the motorbikes.
It is a similar case in many urban areas where motorbikes have helped boost 24-hour economy and ease transportation of goods and people.
Nahashon Kiarie is a motorbike taxi operator in Kitengela, a fast-growing suburb on the south of Nairobi.
His day starts at 5 am, where he picks two commuters from their homes and ferries them to the main bus terminus for them to board a vehicle to Nairobi city center.
By the time he returns home for breakfast at about 8am, he would have ferried at least five more customers.
"I earn my living from my motorbike. This is where I get money for my rent, food, clothing and all my other needs," said Kiarie on Thursday.
Kiarie earns up to 1,500 shillings (15 U.S. dollars) in a good day, money that he spreads on all his expenses.
"Every day I must buy food, which means I create a job for the vegetable seller and the shopkeeper and all this is because of the motorbike," he said, noting he bought his Haojin machine at 750 dollars.
The high number of motorbike operators in the suburb, just as in many others, has brought fortunes to landlords.
The property owners are building single-roomed houses mainly made of iron sheets which they rent out to the tens of motorbike taxi operators at 20 dollars per month.
"There is good business in the motorbike riders. I had eighth-acre piece of land which was idle for years because I did not have money to build concrete houses. But I have now built 20 one-roomed iron sheet houses and they are all occupied by motorbike taxi riders," said Bernard Mureithi, a landlord in Kitengela.
In rural areas, that the Chinese-made machines have transformed lives is evident. Most young people who ordinarily would have been idle and be lured to crime are now engaged in the motorbike transport industry.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-0 ... 261302.htm
Source: Xinhua| 2019-07-26 23:18:07|Editor: Mu Xuequan
by Bedah Mengo
NAIROBI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A thriving motorbike transport industry in Kenya has lifted economies of various rural and urban centers, with the machines imported mainly from China changing the fortunes of many.
Across rural Kenya, economies of most of the regions now revolve around the motorbikes.
It is a similar case in many urban areas where motorbikes have helped boost 24-hour economy and ease transportation of goods and people.
Nahashon Kiarie is a motorbike taxi operator in Kitengela, a fast-growing suburb on the south of Nairobi.
His day starts at 5 am, where he picks two commuters from their homes and ferries them to the main bus terminus for them to board a vehicle to Nairobi city center.
By the time he returns home for breakfast at about 8am, he would have ferried at least five more customers.
"I earn my living from my motorbike. This is where I get money for my rent, food, clothing and all my other needs," said Kiarie on Thursday.
Kiarie earns up to 1,500 shillings (15 U.S. dollars) in a good day, money that he spreads on all his expenses.
"Every day I must buy food, which means I create a job for the vegetable seller and the shopkeeper and all this is because of the motorbike," he said, noting he bought his Haojin machine at 750 dollars.
The high number of motorbike operators in the suburb, just as in many others, has brought fortunes to landlords.
The property owners are building single-roomed houses mainly made of iron sheets which they rent out to the tens of motorbike taxi operators at 20 dollars per month.
"There is good business in the motorbike riders. I had eighth-acre piece of land which was idle for years because I did not have money to build concrete houses. But I have now built 20 one-roomed iron sheet houses and they are all occupied by motorbike taxi riders," said Bernard Mureithi, a landlord in Kitengela.
In rural areas, that the Chinese-made machines have transformed lives is evident. Most young people who ordinarily would have been idle and be lured to crime are now engaged in the motorbike transport industry.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-0 ... 261302.htm
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Re: Kenya's Thriving Motodop Economy
Chinese motorcycles account for over 50 percent of Kenya's motorbike market, with the machines injecting million dollars daily into the economy
Propaganda from china news or not?In rural areas, that the Chinese-made machines have transformed lives is evident. Most young people who ordinarily would have been idle and be lured to crime are now engaged in the motorbike transport industry.
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