- Sugar Board and police launch crackdown on illegal sugar in Kitale
- Operation targets smuggling, distribution and sale of unverified sugar
- Authorities seek to protect consumers and legitimate sugar traders
The Kenya Sugar Board has teamed up with police to crack down on illegal and counterfeit sugar in Kitale and its surrounding areas, targeting smuggling networks that authorities say are hurting legitimate traders and consumers.
The joint operation, led by the Kenya Sugar Board, brought together the Kenya Police Service and other government agencies. It focused on sugar suspected of being illegally imported or repackaged as genuine product.
Officers went after three areas of the illegal trade: smuggling, distribution, and sale of sugar that had not gone through proper import or verification channels.
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According to the authorities, the goal is to protect consumers from unsafe or mislabelled sugar, support traders who operate within the law, and slow the growth of the illegal sugar trade in the region.
Kenya’s sugar sector has faced repeated problems with cheap, duty free imports undercutting local millers, so enforcement action of this kind tends to draw support from farmers and licensed distributors who compete directly with smuggled stock.
By Benedict Aoya
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