STOP HARASSING KENYANS, MR. RUTO
China is known as the factory of the world because it produces REPLICA goods like no other country in the world. Chinese factories and WORKERS produce everything—from Gucci to the iPhone to the Mercedes Benz—or products which look like them.
In 2010 when I visited China, I bought an iPhone which lasted exactly 6 months before it extinguished in my hands. The MASSIVE Chinese economy is fuelled, in large part, by the “manufacture”, sale and export of those REPLICA goods. Those goods pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the Chinese economy. They create employment, wealth and improve the conditions of life for the Chinese.
But I have never heard or read that the watchful and meticulous Chinese government has raided the factories (purportedly working with the Interpol) which produce those goods, confiscated those goods from factories and shops and/or arrested the Chinese business men and women earning livelihoods from selling or trading in them.
In North America, Asia and Europe, it’s those Chinese REPLICAS which are sold—openly and legally—in DOLLAR STORES and numerous outlets across the planet.
Why? Because the Chinese and other governments in Europe, Asia and North America (I don’t know about the state of the MARKET in Central and South America) UNDERSTAND that they exist to SERVE the INTERESTS of their people—not of any other foreign or local company or entity.
But in Kenya where youth unemployment exceeds 80% and growing; where the economy collapsed due to massive plunder, mismanagement and neglect decades ago; and where almost everyone lid barely surviving, the ROGUE Ruto regime is RAIDING shops, destroying and confiscating goods and harassing hard working Kenyans struggling to survive under the pretext of “fighting counterfeit goods.”
Those are the same ROGUES who live flashy lifestyles and show off in expensive Gucci clothes, multi million shilling watches and shoes amidst the widespread SQUALOR they are responsible for as they make multiple trips abroad pretending to be employment agencies for foreign companies, including those producing REPLICAS.
I’m not encouraging copyright and patent infringements. All I am saying is that the Kenya government must serve Kenyans and stop excelling only in anti-people activities—from plunder, to the illegal importation of Ebola to harassing Kenyans struggling under the economic mess they created and preside over.
Kenyans don’t have factories, ships and the logistics to produce and distribute REPLICAS. If American and European companies want to crack down on the manufacture and sale of replicas, let them go to the source—China!
Stop harassing Kenyans!