I was a bit disappointed to read this article http://www.the-star.co.ke/opinions/leader/64484-ban-on-mitumba-is-very-bad-i... And especially this part: "If mitumba were banned, Kenyans would have to pay more for clothes that were not as good. A ban would reduce Kenyan living standards. Government should not try to prop up the textile sector by a ban on secondhand clothes. The sector is not competitive globally. It is like PanPaper at Webuye - however much government spends, it cannot recover, it is a corpse." "Clothes that were (sic) not as good"... "Pan Paper ....cannot recover" "A ban would reduce Kenyan living standards" ....hmmm....quite unexpected from what I thought would be one of Kenya's more impartial papers. I recall some discussions here a few weeks ago (triggered by that "Interesting Piece") and such type of "logic' was brutally called into question. So basically the government should give up - don't do CPR to Pan Paper. Allow Kenya to become a second hand economy - clothes, cars, tyres, refurbished computers, etc... - Francis Hook +254 733 504561