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Meet Gatonye, inventor of home-made tuk tuks

Peter Gatonye makes final touches at his tuk-tuk in Nyahururu town. [Photo: Standard]

One of the highlights of the second edition of Laikipia County Innovation Fair is a locally assembled tuk tuk (rickshaw), an invention of one Samwel Gatonye.

Mr Gatonye, 47, and a father of five, started working on his new tuk tuk model dubbed BJ-50 in 2002.

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