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Chris Kirubi’s company, Haco Industries named in NASA boycott list

Lawyer Miguna Miguna displays Miadi Oil, one of the products manufactured by Haco Tiger Industries owned by billionaire Chris Kirubi. The company has been added to NASA's boycott list. [www.the-star.co.ke]

The National Super Alliance has taken its boycott battle a notch higher after it named a company associated with business mogul Chris Kirubi on Wednesday.

NASA through lawyer Miguna Miguna named the Haco Tiger Industries as one of the companies whose products should be boycotted by NASA supporters.

Miguna alleged the company played part in bungling of the August 8 polls.

Haco industries is well known for the manufacture of stationery such as rulers, Bic-brand pens, beauty products such as Miadi hair oil, Amara body lotion, cleaning detergents, pegs and shavers.

“We are encouraging our supporters not to buy products and services or shares from that company so that we send a clear message that impunity does not pay,” said Miguna at the Okoa Kenya offices in Lavington on Wednesday according to the Star.

He, however, did not explain the role that the company allegedly played in bungling the August 8 polls.

Haco is yet to respond to the boycott threat by NASA.

Haco becomes the fifth company that has been named by NASA in its boycott list.

Last year, the opposition outfit called on its supporters to boycott products and services from Safaricom, Bidco and Brookside dairies associated with President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Raila Odinga together with a host of other NASA politicians staged their boycott for Safaricom as they migrated to rival telco firm, Airtel.

NASA accused Safaricom of transmitting results from the polling stations directly to a cloud server registered in Spain and not to the IEBC server in France, as was agreed in their contract.

Two days ago, NASA also threated to call for a boycott on products and services from the Nation Media Group.

In a letter from NASA’s director of communication Dennis Onyango to the Group’s acting CEO Stephen Gitagama; the coalition cited the media house’s print division has been targeting NASA unfairly.

Onyango said the newspaper associated with the Group, daily Nation, has been on a negative campaign mission against NASA.

“NASA will then have no option but to call on supporters to boycott the company and all its products,” Onyango told NMG.

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