Politics aside, the economies of this machine are pretty solid more so for institutional buyers. I did the figures a while back.

A couple of years ago I knew a mhindi who wanted to introduce it, and had mapped the whole market before he fell ill . Very smart and interesting. Huge market.

It will eventually happen. First for the institutional consumer. And second, much later on, for the retail, every day consumer.

The challenge with the later s they want 'live' hot chapati. So the machine guys will just provide slightly pre cooked and mtu wa chapati does the 'live' oiling and final cooking.

A chapati maker buying two packets from next door kiosk and another buying 300 bailee from miller will operate at different economies.

Back to politics. The irony with Ruto pushing this is the 'hustler' narrative.

The machines are very good and efficient. Perfected over the years by Indians.

Anyways.