{"id":6053,"date":"2025-07-13T06:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6053\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T06:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:35:06","slug":"manufacturing-sector-shrinks-as-ruto-regime-reverses-kibaki-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6053\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing sector shrinks as Ruto regime reverses Kibaki gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President\u00a0William\u00a0Ruto\u00a0 lays a brick to makasembo housing project phase 3 in Kisumu as he\u00a0 commissioned phase 1. [Michael Mute\/Standard] \n<\/p>\n


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In 2002, the manufacturing sector contributed a paltry two per cent to Kenya\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP), which is a measure of the total value of goods and services produced by the country.<\/p>\n

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