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Nairobi \u2014 The government’s push to lease more vehicles is expected to spur local automobile production, create jobs, and cut reliance on imported cars, Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary Lee Kinyanjui has said.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking during the unveiling of the local assembly plant for the Isuzu MU-X variant, Kinyanjui noted that the dominance of used cars in the Kenyan market has historically hindered the growth of local manufacturing.<\/p>\n “One of the biggest challenges that every auto manufacturer will cite…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The government’s push to lease more vehicles is expected to spur local automobile production, create jobs, and cut reliance on imported cars, Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary Lee Kinyanjui has said. Speaking during the unveiling of the local assembly plant for the Isuzu MU-X variant, Kinyanjui noted that the dominance of used cars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,16675,6557,4357,4688,430,42235,15664,7823,257,7544,254,7765],"class_list":["post-222619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auto","tag-boost","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kinyanjui","tag-leasing","tag-local","tag-news","tag-production","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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