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KEBS doesn't know who imported substandard sugar

KEBS Acting MD Moses Ikiara and Quality Assurance Director Benard Nguyo when they appeared before the National Assembly Agriculture and Trade Committees Joint Committees on contraband sugar with mercury at County Hall, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) does not know who imported substandard and contaminated sugar.

When he appeared before National Assembly’s Agriculture and Trade committees that are jointly investigating the matter, acting Managing Director Moses Ikiara could not explain the type of sugar that was imported last year.

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