Mohamed Moti & Sons the oldest business in Meru and still thriving

Mohamed Moti business in Meru is said to have started in the early 1900s. It is now over 120 years since they opened shop.

Meru was declared a township by the first colonial District Commissioner Edward Butler Horne on May 13, 1911. By then, Mr Mohamed Moti was an established trader.

It is said In 1896, the Indian trader sailed to Kenya from in India, where owned a cotton ginnery at the age of 29.

Mr Moti was travelling to South Africa in a dhow but at Mombasa, he found other Indians who convinced him to settle in Kenya.