PIRACY AND BLACK MARKET IN KAJIADO
Local musicians and film actors face
a major blow due to piracy. Their hard work of art that include
composing, recording and acting, land in
wrong hands of few individuals who easily benefit after
purchasing a DVD, a small screen and
some loud speakers to draw the attention of customers who
gullibly buy the pirated disks due
to their cheap prices.
The plagiarism has however taken
root in most of Rongai, Kiserian and Ngong among other parts of
Kajiado town. In almost of every
street of Kajiado towns, there is dazzling music to entice passersby and
residents. Local hitting songs are
used as bait accompanied by cheap prices. The vendors shamelessly
burn the songs and movies to blank
CDs using hacked software. The software enables them to produce
thousands of copies and sell them in
large volumes.
The most notorious places include
Kware in Rongai, Kiserian market and Ngong market. They are located
in cheap stalls if and verandas.
Others are located along the roads in order to reach massive customers.
Perhaps the question that we should
ask ourselves is, if everyone can easily access them, what does
the county council of ole Kajiado do
to curb them? The revenue collectors together with the police
department should be keen of such
issues. They may seem minor but if caught by the music copyright
of Kenya, heavy fines are incurred.
If one is caught possessing pirated art or pirating, the fines are up to
fifty thousand shillings or face
imprisonment of two years. In addition, one is banned from holding any
license and then one is regulated
from transacting any art business.
Other than pirated goods, black-market
goods are booming in Kajiado. The goods include; fake mobile
phones and electronic equipments.
The gadgets are an imitation of pure brand of products. Recently,
there has been a massive complain
about fake memory cards and fake phones. The problem is that
after break up the vendors are not
liable for the losses since no warrant is given to those goods. Instead,
customers are restrained by the cash
receipts that state ` goods once sold cannot be replaced ‘. They do
not even bare the mark of quality
known as Kenya Bureau of Standard (KEBS). Goods without mark of
quality subjects citizens to bear
the burden of any fault that they might be having.
The question that most people ask is
who licenses such business? The simple answer is that no one
licenses such people but there is a
back door way of letting them transact the inflicting business. The
revenue collectors armed with yellow
coats perform the corrupt activity at the evening hours, four to
six. They charge as little as ten
shillings depending on how often you pay them. Due to heavy `work log’,
some hawkers evade tax. If the
county government of ole Kajiado is not careful, millions of shillings will
be lost in few individual’s pockets.
On 27th February 2014, the county council of ole kajiado will
demolish all structures along the roads but the question at hand is whether
this will end the piracy an black market?
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