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Report on sugar smuggling could explain the complex sugar importation saga

Bags of sugar under controversy at at Bondeni in Mombasa County on Saturday 18th August 2018. [Photo:Kelvin Karani/Standard]

Hours after National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich opened a three month duty free window for the importation of sugar into the country special gazette notice dated October 4, duty free sugar was in the country.

Investigations by Saturday Standard indicate that thousands of bags entered into the country through the boarder point from Somalia compounding sugar players.

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