Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:
Nairobi controlling 60% of the GDP is surely a hoax, Commerce in Nairobi is significant but ain't that dominant. 1 needs to travel around the country to see just how vast the rest of Kenya is and that there are people everywhere engaged in economic activities. ask yourself what are our major exports, Tea, coffee, Tourism, hardly in Nairobi, what about major consumption, Sugar, Maize and other cereals, milk, ain't in Nairobi.
In my guess from nowhere, I would give Nairobi a maximum share of the GDP of 40%
Uhuru park, my guess is when they say 1Million people showed up, my guess is they actual people are 100,000, if you stretch it 150,000. 1 Million people would probably equate to 1/2 of Nairobi adults, can't happen.
Obi,
Where is your concrete evidence evincing the above. You can't just claim to debunk the 60% figure with your own informal reasons.
According to KNBS which is the official source of all economic data and stats related to Kenya,
Agriculture is a mere 25% of GDP of the entire economy of Kenya. EVEN then. Did you forget that majority of the value addition, packaging and so on for the sector in Kenya is conducted in our beautiful Nairobi City?
Even the freight headed outbound leaves from here. And all those firms pay taxes hapa hapa. I am utterly amazed that you discount the value the green city in the sun brings to the entire economy of Kenya
Let's move to concrete FACTS
According again to
to KNBS:Quote:The total output of the industrial sector in 2009 was KSh 1,009.2 billion with total gross value added of KSh 319.8 billion. Manufacturing activities recorded the largest share of industrial production, accounting for 90.3 per cent of total value of industrial output. This was followed by electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply which recorded 7.9 per cent of the total output. The total number of persons engaged as at June 2009 was 324,841 with about half of them based in Nairobi.
That is a whopping 50% of employment in the industrial sector in the whole country, which tells you the % of the manufacturing GDP is way above 50% from common knowledge that
almost all the largest corporates in Kenya by revenues are Nairobi based. Need I name them? Safaricom for example, basically runs Kenya and is squarely in Nairobi (taxwise, administratively and so on) even as it generates revenues countrywide.
Almost all the largest individual tax payers in Kenya are Nairobi based. Ask
the Daily Nation. In a similar vein, we all know
almost all the largest corporate tax payers are Nairobi based. And we know this large corporates command an oversize (by a huge multiple) of GDP compared to small informal businesses and farms in rural areas.
Add to all this that
Nairobi alone hosts a whopping 1/3 of Kenya's fast growing middle class. And this does not count those in satellite counties (including dustbowl) who commute into Nairobi daily who may boost that 1/3 to 1/2 during the day!
Jameni what more proof do you want?
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