[kictanet] Of Vision 2030, the role of the media and hungry well-dressed Kenyans

[Francis Hook]

I was a bit disappointed to read this article

http://www.the-star.co.ke/opinions/leader/64484-ban-on-mitumba-is-very-bad-idea

And especially this part:

"If mitumba were banned, Kenyans would have to pay more for clothes
that were not as good. A ban would reduce Kenyan living standards.
Government should not try to prop up the textile sector by a ban on
secondhand clothes. The sector is not competitive globally. It is like
PanPaper at Webuye - however much government spends, it cannot
recover, it is a corpse."

"Clothes that were (sic) not as good"...
"Pan Paper ....cannot recover"
"A ban would reduce Kenyan living standards"

....hmmm....quite unexpected from what I thought would be one of
Kenya's more impartial papers.

I recall some discussions here a few weeks ago (triggered by that
"Interesting Piece") and such type of "logic' was brutally called into
question.

So basically the government should give up - don't do CPR to Pan
Paper.  Allow Kenya to become a second hand economy - clothes, cars,
tyres, refurbished computers, etc...

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Francis Hook
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