Arusha — The ogre that swallowed many of the Arusha-based textile factories in the late nineties has returned for another chew onto the remaining two plants, threatening to send these struggling mass employing industrial units into early grave.
A-to-Z and Sun-Flag Textile Mills have so far sent home more than 2,500 workers due to recently emerged cases of cheap, imported bed nets that have started to flood the local market at the expense of the two tax-paying entities of Arusha.
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