Alarm as NEMA officials nab trader in Meru with banned plastic bags

A consignment of plastic bags worth Sh660,000 netted by police and NEMA officials at a wholesale shop in Gakoromone, Meru county. The owner Ayub Gituma was arrested. (Standard)

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has reported that banned plastic bags are still smuggled into Kenyan from Uganda despite ban.

This comes after a trader was arrested in Meru with a consignment of the banned packing bags believed to have originated from the neighbouring country.