Top among the worlds’ agenda is environment friendly policies and products. While most individuals sit in roundtable conferences discussing on it and sipping from numerous plastic water bottles, Fred Onyango or Freddie as he is popularly known is a man of action. Together with his team of 5, they use waste in the design, modelling and modification of motor vehicles; all from an open air (Jua kali)-italics site in Nairobi’s Ngara industrial section.
His road trips on any day is like a scene from Madmax Furry, the movie, owing to the massive attention the design and shape the vehicles attract.The vehicles which are made in different interesting shapes are made for the purposes of children and public attention as well as entertainment. The most popular shapes of the 7 vehicles currently in use are an eagle, dinasour, helicopter. The Mobile Journalism team had a ride with him as we discussed various things.
