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End smuggling of sugar

Bags of sugar yet to be sold out at the West Kenya’s Olepito Sugar factory located in Teso South, Busia County.[Ignatius Odanga, Standard]

The Government must do everything to stop the smuggling of sugar from neighbouring countries, which seems to be thriving.

In the latest incident, police impounded more than 400 bags of contraband sugar last Thursday in western Kenya. On September 3, KRA officers seized 230 bags suspected of smuggled sugar along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway.

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