GOVERNMENT TO BAN 'MITUMBA' AND PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE. ~~TRADE CS MOSES KURIA

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Trade and Investments CS Moses Kuria

What you need to know;

  • The announcement was made by the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of of Trade, investments and industry, Moses Kuria.

  • The Ban is expected to boost local textile industry.

  • The government is looking forward to create 5million jobs for the youth in the textile industry within 5years.

  • The government will first find an alternative for Mitumba traders before initiating the ban.
Speaking on Tuesday after attending the Changamka festival, Trade CS Moses Kuria hinted on a possibility by the Kenyan government to impose a ban on second hand clothes popularly known as MITUMBA.

The announcement has created an online spat with Azimio coalition supporters castigating the cabinet secretary and the government for eating into Azimio-One Kenya coalition manifesto that they disagreed with during the August 9th campaigns.

Odinga had proposed the ban of Mitumba in the Kenyan market earlier during the campains, something that was not received well with the Kenya Kwanza government which has made sense later.

Our people are only wearing mitumba, clothes that are coming outside the country, that are worn by people who are dead. We are going to go to primary production so that our people who are importing mitumba can have good products to sell here. ~~Azimio Coalition Leader Raila Odinga on campaign. 

Earlier, Kuria with youths purchasing Mitumba boxers at Gikomba.

Speaking during the Changamka Shopping Festival at KICC on Tuesday, Trade CS Moses Kuria said his ministry will first work to get an alternative before the ban is initiated.

"I will work with the textile industry to ensure that we make cheaper clothes available in this market, and then we will ban mitumba when we give people an alternative," ~~CS Kuria

The CS dismissed the notion that the clothes were cheap and said the decision was driven by the price of the clothes, not cheap as it is believed. 

"The price we are selling clothes to America is much lower than mitumba, so it is not a question of the price it is a question of availability," he added.

The CS said in doing such among other things, the government will commit to creating employment in the local textile industry for it's people.

We have 50,000 people employed in the textile industry. It is our intention to equal, if not be better than Bangladesh, which has 5 million people working in the same industry. ~~CS Moses Kuria 

 

Mitumba traders at Gikomba

Comments

  1. Edit One Kenya - EoKNovember 1, 2022 at 11:38 PM

    Done
    #MitumbaBan

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  2. Edit One Kenya - EoKNovember 2, 2022 at 12:11 AM

    Thoughtful

    ~~Peters(reader)

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  3. Edit One Kenya - EoKNovember 2, 2022 at 12:14 AM

    😂😂😂😂 Kenya my motherland
    ~~Dr. Stockman(reader)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Edit One Kenya - EoKNovember 2, 2022 at 1:34 AM

    But you guys opposed the same when Raila said he's going to burn mtumba so baba is always right.

    ~~Challe (reader)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Edit One Kenya - EoKNovember 2, 2022 at 1:38 AM

    Hapa sasa Naona kinara ameanza kuanguka mtihani...

    ~~Alpha(reader)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Edit One Kenya - EoKNovember 2, 2022 at 7:51 AM

    Waende na uko..... I don't put on new clothes am allergic to them. Ninunue nguo nipate kila mtu kwa njia amevaa.

    ~~The sweet me, proud Mamaa(reader)

    ReplyDelete

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