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Bunge Chronicles: What is it again waziri Kuria? Ban mitumba?

President William Ruto congratulates the new CS for Trade and Industry Moses Kuria after he was sworn in at State House on October 27, 2022. [PCS, Standard]

What did Moses Kuria, the Waziri of Trade, ever do to Kenyans? Bwana Kuria was subject of online debate over his remarks that the Hustler government allegedly wants to ban mitumba and, ostensibly, put hustlers out of work.

In Bunge, he was receiving a battering from Kamukunji mheshimiwa Yusuf Hassan, who represents many a mitumba trader. Yusuf thought the new waziri had read his job description wrong.

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