This archive report was first published on 30 June 2019.
June 30, 2019
Awendo Member of Parliament Walter Owino has urged the government to restrict foreigners to specific business activities in Kenya.
The MP's remarks come as the country grapples with the issue of foreign businesses competing with local traders.
According to Owino, foreigners should only be allowed to run unique business activities that do not emasculate those run by local investors.
“I want to tell government officers in charge of trade in our country, that we’re really not against foreign investors coming to invest in Kenya, because we also have our people who have invested and are doing business in other countries,” Owino stated.
However, he emphasized that these foreign investors should be regulated and their business activities monitored.
“Let these people be regulated; let the kind of business that they’re doing in our country be regulated. We’re not supposed to have foreigners running kiosks in our country; we’re not supposed to have foreigners hawking everything including milk and water along the streets of Nairobi and other towns,” Owino said.
