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Hawkers arrested for selling sugarcane, plums wrapped in plastic bags

The traders allegedly selling sugarcane and plums wrapped in the banned plastic bags will be arraigned today. [Courtesy, NEMA]

Three Nairobi based hawkers risk a jail term and hefty fines after they were arrested yesterday using the outlawed plastic bags.

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) on their Twitter handle said the traders who were allegedly selling sugarcane and plums wrapped in the banned plastic bags will be arraigned today.

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