Passion to solve ordinary problems is all we needed

Michael Malombo Mwaisakenyi and Ken Kioria Gicira of JKUAT who were mentioned as shujaas for developing a weeding robot.

When two classmates in university teamed up to work on an engineering project, they never imagined their names would make it to the list of “shujaas” that the president would mention in his speech.

Michael Malombo Mwaisakenyi and Ken Kioria Gicira, 25, of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) say they never, in their wildest dreams, imagined they would be subject of discussion in a national event.

“My phone has not stopped ringing. From the moment President Uhuru Kenyatta mentioned our names, people want to know who we are and what drives us. We are just young men who wanted to do something different,” Mwaisakenyi said.