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Crackdown on maize from Uganda still on

Youths offload maize sacks from a truck in Busia town. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

Security officers impounded 22 trucks loaded with maize in Makutano town last week that had been sneaked in from Uganda.

Unscrupulous traders are using illegal routes along the Kenya-Uganda border to smuggle maize into the country despite a government directive issued last month to guard against imports of the grain on suspicion of high aflatoxin levels.

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