Labour Day Address from State Hse

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Buy Kenya Build Kenya, eh?
 
Mwalimu-G said:
What's your point? THat anyone calling themselves kenyan should be 100 per cent?
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My point is that whether you're 100% Kenyan or 0% Kenyan, you only get business if you're in 'the business'. Example below.

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Aside, it would be interesting to hear what you think is the minimum percentage for you to be considered Kenyan.
 
For starters, everything made in Kenya by a local company or multinational with some Kenyan materials and Kenyan labour I would consider kenyan
 
Mwalimu-G said:
For starters, everything made in Kenya by a local company or multinational with some Kenyan materials and Kenyan labour I would consider kenyan
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So, if I, an Italian, register a milk company in Kenya and hire a few Kenyans in management and then do bulk imports of milk from Netherlands to be sold on Kenyan shelves(packing done here), my company would be Kenyan enough for you, right?
 
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kijanamrefu said:
So, if I, an Italian, register a milk company in Kenya and hire a few Kenyans in management and then do bulk imports of milk from Netherlands to be sold on Kenyan shelves(packing done here), my company would be Kenyan enough for you, right?
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That's not what I said. I was thinking along the lines of a multinational manufacturing an insecticide from Kenyan-grown pyrethrum but only needs to import solvents that are not available in the country.
 
kijanamrefu said:
And what do you say about Angus Nassir?
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I had never heard of him until I saw that excerpt up there and from it I cannot even tell what it is he wanted to test. I can guess because I know Senegal came up with a COVID-19 test but I cannot work on guesses. Wacha ni-google to satisfy my curiosity.
 
Mwalimu-G said:
That's not what I said. I was thinking along the lines of a multinational manufacturing an insecticide from Kenyan-grown pyrethrum but only needs to import solvents that are not available in the country.
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In that case, then the quantification of what percentage constitutes a Kenyan company would lie with you, no?
 
Mwalimu-G said:
I had never heard of him until I saw that excerpt up there and from it I cannot even tell what it is he wanted to test. I can guess because I know Senegal came up with a COVID-19 test but I cannot work on guesses. Wacha ni-google to satisfy my curiosity.
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Fair enough.

However, stating things as they are, I guess by the time you've Googled, he'll already be in business with the Rwandans. We'll never get a chanve to know what he was building or capitalise on it. Once more, Buy Kenya Build Kenya, unless implemented system wide from the highest policy levels ,will continue being just an empty slogan.

And from a bigger picture perspective, failing to capitalise on a youthful creative and energetic population is counterproductive to nation building, because no matter what campaign is used to rally them later to patriotic causes, they have already learned that vitu kwa ground ni different, that they are on their own. Winning such a person over to any cause will be very difficult.
 
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