KRA to lose billions as State firm gets nod to import duty-free food

Lavenda Achieng Machine Operator at Nyatike Agri-Business Self help Group growers limited rice Milling plant on October 16, 2020. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

The Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) will over the next one year import thousands of tonnes of essential food items duty-free in the government's latest bid to lower the cost of living.

Among the commodities that KNTC will be importing include the cooking oil cargo that is already causing anxiety among local edible oil manufacturers.