Sometimes democracy can be a stumbling block to economic development. In the late sixties and seventies the economy of Kenya was driven by the textile industry from cotton growing, gining, fabrics production, garments manufacturing, tailoring, garments and cotton export. This sector was the leading employer in the country. There were many ginneries in South Nyanza, North Nyanza, the whole of Western province, Meru, Mwea, Kitui and Malindi. These ginneries employed many people directly and provided cash economy to many cotton farmers and cotton labour. Do you know all the slave trade was driven by demand for labour in the cotton fields? There were many textile mills in Kisumu, Eldoret, Nanyuki, Nairobi, Nakuru, Thika, and Mombasa. Each textile mill was employing over 5000 people. I had a shock if my life after coming home I found that the beautiful suit I had bought in London had actually been manufactured by Raymond of Eldoret. When we were growing up every shop in the market had a tailor at the veranda. Now what do we have today? Mitumba mitumba everywhere spending our foreign exchange, eating away employment and robbing our diginity by collecting clothes of the dead or refuse of the leaving. Like textiles we had motor vehicle assembly plants in Nairobi, Mombasa and Thika. Here too we leave on Mitumba vehicles. So the were the fruits of wasted 24 years and even Kibakimanics could not dare touch mitumba of what ever kind. The Jubilee Government could not even dare to deam mitumba abolition in their manifesto. So guys of mitumbaland enjoy you poverty and English Football without even a casual thought about the Kenyan clean sweep in Denmark.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:33:43 +0000
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