[kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?

[Suraj Shah]

You have hit the nail on the head Phares.  There needs to be a law that if a
local product is available, all sellers can sell the imported variety of the
same product only if the local product is also sold side by side.  These
being cost conscious times, local products will definitely be bought more
often over imported ones.

However the question that begs to be answered is, why are local products not
making their way to local shelves?  Kenya grows amazing export quality
fruits and vegetables, which get ... exported!  And then we import good
looking oranges, strawberries, peaches etc while someone else in another
country is eating equally good looking and tasting Kenyan fruit.


On 11/1/11 6:23 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <pkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:

> We also need a thriving chamber of commerce. One only needs to walk into a
> supermarket to see imported fruit juice side by side to locally produced fruit
> juice. 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>  
>> Isn't it strange that we from this resourceful continent have some nerve to
>> go shopping for eggs and chicken
>> soup across the Atlantic.., including Oil...?
>>  
>> I just had a thought, that we activate some lively lobbying by our High
>> commissioners, Commerce/Trade attaches
>> etc in these countries, to do us the needful and establish new trade
>> routes/destinations for us here on this continent.
>> Do we summon them back again for some briefing or, Bw Ps..?
>>  
>> Harry
>> 
>> 
>> From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry <mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bharry>
>> =comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Andrea Bohnstedt
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 5:39 PM
>> To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
>> 
>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?
>> 
>> Speak for yourself, Phares - I'm a loyal five-year-plus client of Dorman's
>> ground coffee :)
>> 
>> (but it drives me demented that KICC et al serve crappy instant coffee when
>> this country grows some of the best coffee in the world)
>> 
>> On 1 November 2011 17 <tel:2011%2017> :34, Phares Kariuki
>> <pkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:19 PM,  <bitange at jambo.co.ke>  wrote:
>>>> > Before we go into complex matters like bonds there are other
>>>> opportunitities.
>>>> > Ghana imports 90% of its chicken consumption from  Brazil.  Gabon Imports
>>>> 100% of eggs from France.  Congo with its  diamonds and Uranium imports its
>>>> supplies including soap and cooking oil from  France.  When I say we must
>>>> start fighting Europe for Africa I do not  mean arms.  Let us wake and
>>>> compete.  If we have no planes to fly  supplies into Congo let us carry
>>>> them on our heads to Congo.
>>>> >
>>>> >  KQ goes to Djibouti without any horticulture yet Djibouti buys its food
>>>> supplies from France.  Sometimes a re-shipment of Kenya's horticulture
>>>> into Djibouti.  We send flowers to Nethwerlands then they are re-shipped
>>>> into Africa.  We export coffee beens into UK then we inport Nescaffe.   Can
>>>> we wake up and fight a fair and simple was on Africa's  resources.
>>>> >
>>> 
>>> Agreed. We need to find simple efficient ways  of trading. My point on bonds
>>> was on raising capital reserves to shore up such  trading, within Africa,
>>> eliminating the need for donor funding. Just as a  further illustration
>>> http://www.starbucksstore.com/Kenya/011009408,default,pd.html.  1 KG of
>>> Kenyan coffee is roughly 2900 KES. We will happily re-import the
>>> Starbucks/Nescafe/Nespresso etc and ignore Dormans on our supermarket
>>> shelves.  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  

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