Hey 🤍
I wanted to finally share something personal… after over 4 years of building Binti through all the ups and downs, we’ve hit a big milestone! We are now local manufacturers 🥹
Our first brand is Mrembo Pads, made right here at home 🇰🇪
@Mrembopads
Africa had the best textile industries in the world.
Kenya had KICOMI, The Kisumu Cotton Mill which produced the highest quality fabrics in East and Central Africa.
KICOMI was a giant textile company which made Kisumu an essential hub for school uniforms and made the micro-economy of Kisumu very vibrant.
It sustained the lives of cotton farmers in Siaya and Kisumu.
KICOMI even had a football team which natured young talents across Nyanza.
Politicians and their proxies looted KICOMI to it's exhaustion.
Kenya is also the second largest producer of the best quality of Sisal in the whole world.
Local industries were looted to exhaustion and Kenya was turned into an import economy.
The most fertile parcels of land were grabbed, some kept idle and some are being used to produce raw materials for European companies.
Good evening patriots. Here is your last dose of anger for the night.
You will recall MT Paloma.
The ship that arrived in March with fuel at 43ppm sulphur.
Four times above Kenya's 10ppm legal limit.
The Energy CS said reject it.
Kenya Pipeline blended it anyway.
Into your engine.
Into your lungs.
Kenyans complained.
Spark plugs failed.
Engines coughed.
Today the government has released a press release.
With official letterhead.
And a very serious signature.
Temporarily adjusting fuel standards to 50ppm sulphur.
For six months.
Owing to Middle East supply constraints.
Let us connect these dots slowly.
Illegal dirty fuel arrives.
Government blends it anyway.
Kenyans complain about engine damage.
Government response?
Change the standard to match the illegal fuel.
They did not fix the fuel.
They fixed the law.
To fit the crime.
This is not fuel standards management.
This is evidence tampering.
On a national scale.
With official letterhead.
The MT Paloma fuel was illegal in March.
It is now government policy in April.
Your engine was not the problem Kenya.
Your standards were just too high.
They have been adjusted accordingly.
Everything else will follow.
As usual, stay angry. No fake optimism: Singapore is a mirage!
Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.
95 bob for each student where 40 bob is meant for exercise books. How many books can 40 bob buy?
Meanwhile, lets give 17B to statehouse and 8m daily for Kindiki's helicopters. Welcome to Singapoor
I have tried to contain this anger but I couldn't help but channel it to you my fellow Kenyans.
Kimani Ichungw'ah was in London.
On your budget. Looking at fuel prices.
He came back to tell us London diesel is Ksh350 per litre.
He is correct.
Londoners enjoy free healthcare.
Functional roads.
Lights that stay on.
A government legally accountable to its citizens.
A minimum wage that pays rent.
A woman who delivers in a hospital with electricity.
You cannot borrow London's fuel prices to defend your failures and leave London's governance on the shelf.
That is not a comparison.
That is a man who traveled at your expense and came back with excuses wrapped in first world statistics.
When you provide London services, we will discuss London prices.
Until then, sit down and wait for Tuesday. We want you to tell us that straight to our faces on Tuesday!!
Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.