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

[Mark Mwangi]

this is just more mediocrity being flogged as advise. So we should
continue to import others rejects while our industries die off?
pathetic.

On 2/29/12, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
> -
> Francis Hook
> +254 733 504561
>
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Regards,

Mark Mwangi

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