Going gets tough for raw skins smugglers as State plans new rules

Trade and Industry CS Peter Munya (centre) admires a leather handbag during the Kenya Leather and Leather Products Conference at Bomas of Kenya. Looking on is Robert Njoka (right) Leather Apex Society of Kenya Chairman. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Days of raw animal skin smugglers are numbered as the government seeks ways to clamp down on them.

Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya said the ministry intends to make the going tough for smugglers through a raft of punitive measures to be released in a month’s time.