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A Pipe Dream Come True: The Story of K. Pipes & Fittings Centre By Construction Kenya Showcase Writer Mr Ernest Mburu, the former plumber behind K. Pipes & Fittings Centre When Ernest Mburu Muinamu opened a small plumbing shop in Kikuyu town 10 years ago, all he wanted was to provide...

Hapa sasa ndio shida iko. The businesses that have been bypassed will not sit idly as they miss out on the profits. Watajaribu juu chini kufaidika na hii situation. The have the money to compromise everyone.

Exactly. A simple database extracted from safaricom would do. To simplify the accounting, the items would be distributed packaged in standardized quantities such as 1 kg rice packets at 200 bob, 1 litre cooking oil at 100 bob, 2 kg maize flour at 150 bob etc. This way, it will be easy to...

The problem is that if you sell to retailers, there is no way of telling what they do with the products. And since the demand is higher than the supply, and we are a rotten society, it means there is a high possibility of product diversion to people who can pay more. Profiteers will always try...

These are things that previous governments should have anticipated. The huduma namba should have had additional fields to capture such information. As the situation stands now, the whole thing will be a flop unless high levels of transparency are enforced through the use of technology. I would...

By GERALD ANDAE The Ministry of Trade has mapped 500,000 retail shops in the country where cheap imported foodstuff will be stocked as the government targets to ease the cost of living that pushed inflation to 9.2 percent in February. Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria told the Business...

Ndio hizo sasa. Ukiweka kwa nyama unapata supu thick kama uji.

It has to do with the varieties farmers choose. We are slowly adopting the Western trend, where a product's appearance and shelf-life take precedence over everything else. I have had difficulties looking for the much smaller tomato varieties we had in the past, which fewer farmers grow, but...

I'm sure no one can give a precise answer to this question. The answer depends on how well you can recall the last one, which depends on how bad it inconvenienced your life. Maybe this is the reason the power company has never had to face a serious censure over blackouts. About a month ago, I...

This is a channel that funnels moisture-laden air from the ocean directly into the interior of the African continent. It has created semi-arid climatic conditions in the regions it transverses, while delivering moisture and rain into the continent's interior. The Turkana windpower project takes...

Land buying firms to pay Sh500m licence fees Land-buying companies will be compelled to deposit Sh500 million as licence fees before they are cleared for registration if MPs approve a Bill aimed at protecting investors from fraud. The draft Bill set to be introduced in Parliament seeks to...

A fitting clip for 'vaa helmet' campaigns.

Quite ironic. First, Nyamakima traders complain about unfair competition from China square. Now, normal cargo handlers are complaining about unfair competition from consolidated cargo handlers, who have been hiding small traders from the tax man. Looks like the Nyamakima trader will now have to...

The plane crashed in 2007 under the command of two Kenyan pilots: 52-year-old Captain Francis Wamwea, a former Kenya Airways flight attendant who had since racked up over 8,600 flight hours, and 23-year-old First Officer Andrew Kiuru, a new hire who had accumulated only 800 hours since he...

Mindless consumerism refers to the excessive and compulsive consumption of goods and services without much thought or consideration for their true value, impact on the environment, or personal needs. It is characterized by a desire to accumulate possessions and keep up with the latest trends...

Jiji Scams as told by the teller I can only talk about this cause I've fully healed.Around 2018 I tried selling a PS4 Slim console on Jiji, for around Kes. 30,000/=. An Airtel number gives me a call claiming to be interested,me excited, knowing I'm gonna make a quick buck (I really was...

This is the Japanese tuktuk. Quietly made outside Japan (probably Thailand or China), with a Chinese engine, exclusively for the Japanese market. And costs the about Kshs 400 K, the same as your usual tuktuk. Despite its high build quality, the Japanese, who are too accustomed to impeccable...

More like too many niches and too many jokers. Sometimes the better players are suppressed by logarithms (kasaman) under heaps of poor content.