At the opening ceremony of Origin Africa, 2014, Africa’s leading cotton, textile, and machinery trade fair, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta asserted that the Kenyan Government is zeroing upon the textile and clothing sector to generate new job opportunities, with an aim to make Kenya as Africa’s top manufacturing and investment hub. The textile sector in Kenya is capable of creating at least 200,000 jobs in the next 24 months and the Kenyan Government plans to address the challenges affecting the sector including high energy costs and lack of market access, he said. He further added that the Kenyan Government is emphasizing on the revitalisation of the cotton textile apparels sector.
