How poor Kenyans are carrying tax burden for inefficient firms

Times tower building in Nairobi which hosts Kenya Revenue Offices (KRA). [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s grand dream of boosting the manufacturing sector to create millions of jobs for unemployed youth seems to be in shambles.

And now his administration wants out of the plan to support local manufacturing firms with a mixture of tax incentives, low tariffs and bailouts because they have become dead weight.