From Margarine to Medicines, Contraceptives to electronics the market share is sometimes split 50/50 and for some products such as cosmetics there are more fakes than genuine goods.
We are the dumping ground of fake goods from China. The same China that manufactures & Assembles good quality goods for the EU and US such as iPhone, DELL, HP, ASUS.
They know we have weak laws. If they do this shit to the US / EU the containers get shipped back at the expense of the Merchant.
The problem is our weak standards implementation and an unfavorable tax regime that tends to punish genuine business over magendo. A tax regime should ensure genuine businesses can make decent margins after taxation. Here they want you to do business, make the money, be taxed heavily, you are left walking while they drive air-conditioned fuel guzzlers on your tax money
Chinese manufacturers make all goods in 1st, 2nd and third quality. 1st quality goes to rich Western countries because they can afford them. The lower qualities go to the countries that can afford them. The original Addidas in a .ke shop imported from EU/US going for over 10k is still made in China. e.g its much much better to buy and ex-uk (used) bike in .ke rather then by a new made in China bike.
Uhuru was more concerned with tax and not quality. Basically his policy was, even if you bring counterfeits, pay the relevant taxes on them. That’s why he never empowered Kebs. He was right on tax but on quality matters he was wrong. You should not allow China to dump cheap nylon socks to your people denying them dignity of always having smelly feet. Business people being the greedy people they are will always bring in the cheap stuff to the masses if allowed to as they have the best margins
abidas is different from adidas , and you can not use adidas as the standard , abidas is a different brand catering for the low market . there is nothing kebs can do , what is fake/counterfeit is when abidas puts an adidas label on there products that is wrong and illegal and tax evasion .
Kebs can recommend and enforce minimum standards allowable for a product no matter it’s name. We don’t need to wear adidas. Even if it’s aqibas, it has to meet certain standards. Today you buy a Chinese shoe of whatever name and it lasts two weeks. Toys last two days. Kebs can do a lot if empowered by laws and resources