The govt owns about 306,000,000 in Mumias. The share drop from sh 25 to 1.40 amounts approximately 7.2Billion loss. Add that to unemployment that this firm would create in Western Kenya were it to close its doors.

The Government should be get their act together in respect to this firm. Otherwise it will cost them a lot of reputation should to remain its death bed.

Cry cry gvt bail out,kq,mumias,kmc,uchumi,chemelil,muhoroni,pan paper etc you can't be bailing out when pple loot.

IMHO. MSC could easily fall with no big impact. MSC is in western. Most of the collapsing factories are in western & Nyanza. Western leaders are NEVER united thus can't martial a collective bargaining power. Nyanza ppl always in opposition and don't address actual issues. A sitting president knows there's no guarantee of majority votes. Votes from here are negligible. Very few or no factories have collapsed in central,North Rift & other regions. In other regions leaders are united when it comes to defending their economic backbones e.g miraa,coffee. Given panpaper,miwani,chemilil,muhoroni,many coffee factories e.t.c from western &Nyanza and no significant impact was seen,any other like MSC can. People from here don't care to collective bargaining power & economy but individual selfishness.

Kenya Textile Mills, Ramisi Sugar, Kilifi Cashewnuts, Rivatex

At the end of the long list ask yourself whether the investment environment has changed. I think so. For an industrialist investing this year is not as difficult as in those years the said firms collapsed. Furthermore we now have increased demand for products, reduced power, cheaper labour - yes there are more jobless graduates at all levels willing to work for almost free.