Government to Ban‘Mitumba’ From The Kenya Market

The Government is proposing a ban on
imported second had clothes popularly known
as 'Mitumba' in Kenya.

According to the Principal Secretary Wilson
Songa the ban is expected to herald immense
benefits for the country including eliminating
what he termed as "health risks" associated
with the imported used clothes and protect
local textile and leather industries.
"This idea of bringing clothes for dead people
and we are so happy about them, should really
come to an end so that we also see how we
can develop our own industries and enable our
own value chains to be more effective," said Dr
Songa
He went on to say that banning the mitumbas
will not only improve the textile industry and
the economy but it will also improve on textile
standard as they will be regulated by the Kenya
Beaureau of Standards.
"By doing away with those second hand
clothes our textile value chain will become so
much more efficient because we will not have
unnecessary competition which really does not
benefit us at all," he said.