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Kenyans who are looking to buy their dream cars have until Tuesday, March 3, to submit their bid offers. A Nairobi-based law firm, Onyango and Tarus Advocates, is inviting prospective buyers for the purchase of 31 vehicles through an auction.

Onyango and Tarus Advocates has announced the public auction of 31 vehicles, with bids starting as low as KSh 206,000, reflecting the growing economic pressures facing Kenyan borrowers.
The intense, suffocating economic squeeze currently gripping Kenya is manifesting clearly and painfully in the daily classifieds and crowded auction yards scattered across the capital city. In a stark, undeniable reflection of these harsh financial times, the prominent Nairobi-based law firm Onyango and Tarus Advocates has officially invited prospective buyers to aggressively bid on a massive fleet of 31 repossessed vehicles. This highly publicized event sheds a glaring light on the silent debt crisis ravaging the nation.
With a shockingly low reserve price for the cheapest car set at a mere KSh 206,000 and the absolute most expensive vehicle capping at KSh 2,422,000, the impending auction presents a deeply fascinating dual narrative. On the surface, it offers an incredibly rare, highly sought-after opportunity for average Kenyans to finally acquire affordable mobility in an otherwise impossible market. Simultaneously, however, it darkly underscores the severe, widespread financial distress, skyrocketing interest rates, and crippling loan defaults currently plaguing the struggling Kenyan middle class.
The legal firm has been categorically clear about the strict terms of engagement: the vehicles are being ruthlessly sold on an "as where is basis." This standard auction terminology essentially means that the buyer assumes all massive risks associated with the physical condition of the vehicle. There are absolutely no warranties, no post-sale guarantees, and certainly no refunds. What you see in the dusty yard is exactly what you get.
Interested Kenyans, desperately looking to bypass the heavily inflated prices of traditional second-hand car dealerships, have until Tuesday, March 3, to officially submit their binding bid offers through the dedicated online portal, www.eezycars.co.ke. This rapid digitalization of the auctioning process points to a much broader modernization of asset recovery within the highly aggressive Kenyan financial sector, making it easier for liquidators to quickly offload distressed, non-performing assets to a wider, digital-savvy audience.The Shadow of MOGO Auto Limited
Adding massive weight to this growing narrative of economic distress is the concurrent, highly visible activity of MOGO Auto Limited. The well-known financial firm, which specializes heavily in rapid car loans and logbook financing, is simultaneously actively attempting to sell off a staggering 34 different car models, including popular, everyday staples like Toyota, Mazda, and Nissan. They have practically pleaded with interested, cash-ready bidders to physically view these repossessed vehicles at their massive holding yards strategically located across Nairobi, Mombasa, Meru, and Kisumu.
The sheer, unprecedented volume of vehicles currently being pushed aggressively through the auction block by both legal firms and primary lenders is a massive, blinking red economic indicator. It tells a highly sobering, undeniable story of ambitious Kenyans who enthusiastically took on expensive vehicular debt during slightly better economic times, only to be totally crushed by a horrific combination of spiraling inflation, drastically increased fuel prices, and punishing, unpredictable interest rate hikes dictated by global economic winds.
For the opportunistic, cash-rich buyer, this highly distressed market represents a massive, unprecedented goldmine. The ability to potentially secure a fully functional vehicle for barely KSh 206,000 is almost unheard of in the traditional Kenyan retail market, where massive import duties and heavy taxes routinely inflate prices beyond all logical reason.
However, this buyer's paradise is undeniably built entirely on the shattered dreams of former owners. Every single vehicle sitting quietly in those dusty auction yards represents a deeply painful story of financial failure, lost livelihoods, and the brutal, unforgiving reality of modern credit cycles.
As the hammer inevitably falls on March 3, cars will rapidly change hands, but the underlying economic fragility that brought them to the auction block remains deeply entrenched in the Kenyan economy.
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