RAILA WAS POLITICALLY CORRECT ON MITUMBA .

 For the better part of the day , Kenya Kwanza Alliance social media sympathisers have spent the better part trying to spin and coin Raila's statement on importation and usage of second hand clothes in Kenya popularly known as MITUMBA. Led by their chief propagandist Hola National Irrigation Board (HNIB) Dennis Itumbi. But the fact is , even after Itumbi burning his  calories trying to disinform wanjiku who followed Raila Odinga launching his manifesto in a pomp and colourful event in a fully parked Nyayo stadium. His 10 point agenda were simple and straight to thr point. It didn't bombard Kenyans with a lot of literature which is populistic from the word go. Right Hon Raila Odinga didn't say that he will strangle the mtumba industry. Nooo!!! This is an industry which also generates the government billions of shillings inform of tax. But wait , are this second hand clothes from Kenya or Africa? 

In the African continental , Africans are made to believe that , anything that they have generated themselves isn't good. It has some deformities and makes them look like uncivilized people. This is a very archaic reasoning and brainwashing mentality. It is the worst form of colonization. They say , he who concurs your past controls your future. The business of second hand clothes didn't start in Kenya after independence. It started long ago but this time round , it is the Indians in Kenya who started this business. This clothes were from European countries when the climate of racism and imperialism was sweeping the whole of Africa from Tripoli to Cape Town. Raila is Politically correct. In as much as we are consumers of MITUMBA , we must also develop our own textile industry.

DP Ruto is also caught in camera talking in verbatim how his regime will protect the locally manufactured clothes and also textile industries. His lates outfit is locally manufactured I guess from EPZ or Rivatex . His surrogates have spent the whole day trying to spin narratives of how Raila erred. The most disheartening thing is that , Africans consume what they don't produce and consume in large scale what they don't produce. It is hilarious to hear , tea farmer in Kericho or Limuru has never tasted the grade 1 tea. Similarly , a coffee farmer in Kangema or Kirinyaga has never tasted grade 1 coffee. For him to do it , he/she must spend lots money to purchase a cup of grade 1 tea or coffee in Serena hotel. Nescafe is not a Kenyan company but that of Germany. According to global chains , Germany is the leading coffee exporter in the world. Wait abit , do we have a coffee tree in Munich , Leipzig , Frankfurt or Dortmund? There isn't. What's the price of 200g of nescafe in our supermarket shelves?

Cotton farming was strangled when the KANU regime gave a clean bill of health for MITUMBA importers to do it infact in metric tonnes. The local textile industries died a natural death so is the cotton farming industries. Ginneries were grounded. The one in Kisumu , Kitui , Mwea etc breathed their last and it is now that the Jubilee Government has given that industry a new lease of life. Rivatex in Eldoret is fully in operation. The ginnery in Kisumu is full in operation. The Kicotec in Kitui is fully operational and it is one of the textile factory which is making uniform for security forces in Kenya. President Uhuru Kenyatta ,DP Ruto , Raila Odinga etc are now doning in clothes which are locally manufactured? Have Kenyans complained? Infact , they complement them but in this social media spaces , they are wailing in defense of MITUMBA.

 Am not saying mtumba clothes are bad because I don in them but all what we need to delink our minds from is decolonization of the mind. That if you aren't wearing anything originating from the whites you are uncivilized. Infact , that is dangerous. We must emancipate our minds from mental slavery. One thing I revere from our West African brothers and sisters unchained themselves from this mental slavery. They don't in African attires and they are proud of it even when visiting foreign Countries abroad and when attending to international fora. There is nowhere it is written that , if Africans won't shift their attention from wearing MITUMBA , they will be isolated by the rest of the World. Nowhere.

The world giant companies in cosmetics have their biggest pool of customers not from their mother countries but it is in Africa. Yes!!! There is a very hilarious joke that says , if you pluck a thread of hair from an African lady and take it to a witch doctor , an innocent girl or lady is likely to go mad in India , Bangladesh , Philippines , Thailand , Brazil or Colombia. It sounds hilarious but if you critically analyse this statement , you will realize that , Africans must reconfigure their minds a fresh. In Nairobi County , just pay a visit in one of the Best Lady shops and you will see the huge lines customers make to purchase this cosmetic and other beauty products. The most shocking thing is , all this products aren't manufactured in Kenya and if they are , they are produced by multi-National companies.

Let's decolonize our minds. We must promote our locally manufacturing industries. There is something that attracts Kenyans to this MITUMBA clothes , they are relatively cheaper as compared to our locally manufactured clothes. That's why Raila Odinga said , he doesn't necessarily need to kill the MITUMBA industry inorder to uplift the local ones. This statement from him yesterday has been skewed inorder to rhyme to the whims of the opponents. But what they failed to understand is that , him Ruto also poked holes in this very MITUMBA importation to the detriment of locally manufactured clothes especially from EPZ , Kicotec and Rivatex. This is a good approach. We have alot of multi- national corporations and businesses operating in Kenyan economy. They compete favourably with local companies though , there have been instances when , the mother Countries from where some of this Multi National corporations and companies stem from, arm twist the government to be lenient for them in instituting protectorate policies but harm the local ones and to some extent , pushing them out of the market.

In the nutshell , let's embrace BUY KENYA BUILD KENYA policy. You can't still wear your mtumba clothes and at the same time promote the Kenyan brands. It is cognizance to note that , MITUMBA have employed thousands of Kenyans both directly and indirectly especially in Gikomba market. If you visit this market in the morning , that's when you will realize how Kenyans especially the ordinary wanjiku depends on it for a living. No one is saying that is bad. I don't think Raila's 10 agenda of his manifesto will disenfranchise them. I know he is keeping them in his mind. How he will improve the environment favourable for them to conduct their businesses. All I want to say is , we must jealousy guard our local textile industries. Yes!!! With ZERO chills.