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Why emotions overwhelmed economics on mitumba debate

Customers purchase mitumba items from traders at Toi Market in Kibra, Nairobi on June 09, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

It was unprecedented that second-hand clothes (mitumba) could get so much airtime in the run-up to the 2022 polls.

The leading presidential contenders traded barbs on who is likely to ban or support mitumba.

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