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Police impound relief food being packaged for sale

Some of the emergency relief food that was nabbed being repackaged for sale in Ngoingwa estate in Thika. [Kamau Maichuhie/Standard]

Police in Thika yesterday unearthed a racket where emergency relief food said to be from Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County was being repackaged for sale.

Thousands of bags containing relief food, packaged in World Food Programme (WFP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAid) cases, were found when the police raided the store in Ngoingwa estate.

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